The Scaling Era

Sam Altman calls current AI infra buildout the “biggest joint industrial project in human history.” Across the world, companies are building infrastructure with urgency: big tech spending hundreds of billions on data centers, semiconductor fabs investing as much in new capacity, energy providers signing multi-gigawatt power contracts to power AI clusters. The Scaling Era tells the stories behind this buildout. We talk to chip designers, roboticists, data center operators, and founders across the