Todd Stone

Real conversations.
Strategic insight.

Data-center and AI-infrastructure authority — and the faith, leadership, and loss behind what drives the work.

The Business

Infrastructure authority

Data centers, AI power, and the operators building what comes next — broker-grade insight from inside the room.

The Person

Faith, leadership, loss

The redemption arc beneath the résumé. What actually drives the work when the lights go off.

The Host

Todd Stone

Three decades inside the infrastructure that now runs the world. Todd has spent his career building and operating large-scale data center and AI-power capacity — among the first wave of operators to stand up hyperscale AI infrastructure in the American Midwest — with a 100,000-plus network across the data center space.

The Strategic Podcast is where that operator's view meets the human story behind it: leadership, faith, loss, and the discipline it takes to build things that last. He's also the author of Speed to Power.

30+ years in infrastructure Data center & AI power 100K+ industry network 45K+ community Author, Speed to Power
Work with Todd

Bring Todd in — or get him 1:1

Keynotes, consulting, and private strategy sessions — leadership, data-center growth, and building teams that last.

Book a call

Grab time to connect — speaking, collaborations, or a conversation.

1:1 Strategy Consulting

A focused private session on leadership, teams, and data-center strategy. $1,000

Booking Todd for a stage? Speaking →  ·  Want your brand on the show? Partner →

Latest Episode

The conversations have begun.

EPISODE 01

Staffing the AI Build-Out

Host Todd Stone sits down with Christiaan J. Militello, President of PCR Staffing / MissionCritical, on rebuilding a firm for the data-center era — and what it took to pivot when AI began compressing the very roles the business was built on.

"Are we going to die slowly on the vine, or pivot and take advantage of AI? We made a conscious decision to concentrate on the data center space."
Listen on YouTube · Spotify · Apple
More episodes coming. Subscribe below so you don't miss them.
For Sale

Data Center products for sale

Equipment and hardware from the data-center world, Todd's books, and sponsor products — all in one place.

Browse products →
The Brief

Data center intelligence

The numbers operators are actually planning against. Power, not chips, is now the constraint on AI — here's the scale of what's being built.

~165%
Rise in data center power demand driven by AI by 2030
Goldman Sachs
290 GW
Projected global data center power demand by 2030, up from ~104 GW in 2025
Gartner
2×
US data center power demand, projected to roughly double by 2027
Goldman Sachs
~12%
Possible US electricity share for data centers by 2028, from ~4.4% in 2023
US DOE / Berkeley Lab
Operator-grade breakdowns drop in the newsletter. Get The Brief →

Get The Strategic Brief

Both shows, the data-center intelligence, and the conversations behind them — operator-grade, no noise, one inbox.

Our Sponsors
Netceed — sponsor of The Strategic Podcast PCR Staffing — sponsor of The Strategic Podcast