Stanford MS&E435 Economics of the AI Supercycle | Spring 2026 | Building AI Factories
Crusoe Energy CEO Chase Lockmiller explains how AI data centers represent history's second-largest infrastructure investment, driven by the economic potential of scalable 'digital labor.' He reveals Crusoe's strategy of building massive AI factories in stranded-power locations like Abilene, Texas, to overcome the industry's critical bottleneck: energized data center capacity.