The Cloud Left 70% of the World Behind. This Guy's Coming to Fix It. | Ep. 11

The cloud was supposed to connect everyone. It didn't.

When the hyperscalers built their massive data centers, they reached about 30% of the world and called it a day. The other 70%? Left behind. And as AI explodes into every corner of our lives — from autonomous vehicles to oil rigs to disaster response — that gap is becoming a crisis.

Dan Wright, co-founder and CEO of Armada, is on a mission to close that gap. His answer is modular, rapidly deployable AI factories called Galleons that sail to wherever the data is, not the other way around. Remote mines. Ships in the middle of the ocean. The Alaskan wilderness. Anywhere.

In this episode, Dan joins Jono and Naran fresh off the plane from San Francisco to talk about why sovereign AI is the most important conversation, what the US National AI Action Plan actually means on the ground, and why physical AI — robots, autonomous rigs, self-driving everything — is coming faster than any of us are ready for.

He also makes the case that Australia, with its land, its energy, and its strategic position, has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to matter in the global AI race. The question is whether we'll move fast enough to take it.

Buckle up.

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