John Roese, Dell’s Global CTO and Chief AI Officer, sits down with Tom Burke, CEO of Nscale, to explore how the next wave of enterprise AI depends on sovereign compute, resilient AI factories and supply chains built for scale. From Arctic data centers purpose-built for sovereign AI workloads to 600,000-component deployments designed for the world’s most demanding infrastructure challenges, this conversation maps the decisions that will separate AI leaders from the rest.
00:00 — What Is "Big Compute" and Why It Matters Now
00:42 — The Case for Sovereign AI Infrastructure
01:09 — Data Centers and the Hub-and-Spoke Model
02:17 — AI as a Fourth Infrastructure Market
03:01 — Robotics, Agents and Where They Should Live
03:38 — Building Resilient AI Factories Without Idle Infrastructure
04:28 — Why Hybrid Is the Answer
05:14 — Use Case Methodology: Mapping Sovereign vs. Non-Sovereign Workloads
05:39 — Vertically Integrated AI: From Power Grid to Software Stack
07:33 — 600,000 Components: The Reality of a Single AI Factory Deployment
09:08 — Why AI Supply Chain Integrity Is Now Everyone’s Problem
10:04 — From 10 Consumers of Large-Scale Compute to 5,000
11:46 — The Advice Every Enterprise CIO Needs to Hear Right Now
