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EPISODE · Jan 22, 2026 · 27 MIN

One Wrong Button Can Take Down The World's Most Advanced Data Center

from Thinking On Paper · host Mark Fielding and Jeremy Gilbertson

Two-thirds of data center outages are caused by someone pressing the wrong switch. Not a hacker, not a hardware failure. A person, in a room with thousands of switches, and their mind elsewhere.We talk with Shapol, CEO and co-founder of Entangl, about the engineering layer underneath everything we now call AI. Before Entangl, Shapol led a reusable rocket program and oversaw four launches. He hated his engineering design software so much he built his own, and that software is now keeping AI data centers up.He walks us through why AI data centers are fundamentally different from the ones we've been building for thirty years, why generators have an 18-month lead time and what that does to design, how lights-out autonomous operations are reshaping the industry, and the thesis underneath all of it: the AI revolution is bottlenecked less by compute than by the engineering ability to keep compute running.Enjoy.--Other ways to connect with us:⁠Listen to every podcast⁠Follow us on ⁠Instagram⁠Follow us on ⁠X⁠Follow Mark on ⁠LinkedIn⁠Follow Jeremy on ⁠LinkedIn⁠Read our ⁠Substack⁠Email: [email protected](00:00) Trailer(02:17) From rocket launches to data center automation(06:00) How Entangl integrates with building monitoring systems(08:34) Data Center Design constraints: How AI fixes it(15:37) AI, Dunning Kruger And Hallucinations(21:42) Will humans always have the final say in data centers?(24:53) Space-based data centers and solar power(25:04) Kevin Kelly's question: What should humans become?

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