Moonshots with Peter Diamandis Unlocking AGI: How Life Changes for Everyone w/ Jack Hidary, Salim Ismail & Dave Blundin | EP #213
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Dec 6, 2025 
In this enlightening discussion, Jack Hidary, CEO of SandboxAQ and AI expert, shares insights on the upcoming energy abundance and its implications for desalination and disease reduction. Salim Ismail, founder of OpenExO, emphasizes the transformative impact of robotics on industries, while expressing caution about household robots. Dave Blundin provides a view on the geopolitical shifts in manufacturing and the relocation of data centers to energy-rich regions. The trio explores the dual nature of quantum computing, highlighting both its potential benefits and threats to encryption.
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Buying A Million Valves To Avoid Shortages
- Jeff Markley bought every three-gigawatt generator left and then purchased a million valves to avoid supply shortages.
- That precaution turned valve manufacturing into a sudden unicorn opportunity.
AI Moves To Cheap Energy, Not Vice Versa
- Data centers will migrate to where cheap energy exists, reversing the old pattern of moving energy to population centers.
- Countries with cheap solar or stranded gas can capture AI workloads and lock in long-term data-center investments.
Robots Making Robots Enables Scale
- Robot factories that build robots are opening now and will enable rapid scale once operational.
- Embodied LLMs will replace hand-coding, accelerating robot capabilities in logistics and hospitals.