The Neural Daily 2026-03-01: Gigawatts and Storage Apocalypses

The $800 billion "Capex War" is reaching a boiling point as Alphabet and Meta move to vertically integrate the planet’s power and silicon, while the Pentagon swaps Anthropic’s safety guardrails for OpenAI’s military-grade models. From the EU’s crackdown on "subservient" AI personas to a looming storage apocalypse that could make the humble hard drive a relic of the past, Leonard and Vector dive into the high-speed noise of a world being rewritten in real-time. It’s a survival-of-the-fittest for data, and the 72-minute window to protect your network is already closing.