America 250 and the Intelligence Grid | Shimmy Says

As America approaches its 250th birthday, Alan Shimel asks a bigger question: What are we building next? In this episode of Shimmy Says, Alan reflects on America’s history of infrastructure and innovation, from railroads and electrification to highways, telecom, the internet and cloud. Now, he argues, America is building the next great infrastructure layer: the Intelligence Grid. The Intelligence Grid is not just data centers, GPUs or AI models. It is the broader system of compute, power, cooling, fiber, networks, software platforms, security layers and governance systems that will deliver intelligence through applications, workflows and agents. But like every major infrastructure wave before it, the key question is not only who builds it. The bigger question is who gets to build on top of it. Will AI create more builders, more opportunity and more freedom? Or will intelligence become concentrated behind a handful of closed systems and gatekeepers? Alan explores what America’s next 250 years could look like if the Intelligence Grid is built with access, competition, portability, open source, model choice and opportunity in mind. #AI #AIInfrastructure #America250 #OpenSource #ArtificialIntelligence #ShimmySays