Enterprise AI Weekly | EP20 | Is Superintelligence at stake?! | Data Centers, Layoffs, Your AI Bill!
This week's midterms put AI on the ballot. In about forty local votes on data centers, most communities said no. The day after, a member of Congress called for a pause on advanced AI and a ban on superintelligence. And in the same week, Canva restructured 22% of the company while Disney prepared thousands more cuts. In this Enterprise AI Weekly, Paul Brzozowski, Co-Founder of Olakai, the Enterprise AI System of Record, stays out of the politics and does the math. What those local votes did and didn't say, what the pause talk and the other side are saying, what it means for data center supply, why the layoffs and Menlo's 2.5x budget overrun hit the same budget season, and three things to do on Monday. The math is directional, so check it and tell me where you read it differently. Chapters 0:00 Is superintelligence at stake? 1:01 No politics, just the math 1:28 AI on the ballot, about 40 local votes 2:17 The pause talk, and the other view 3:21 What it means for data center supply 4:01 Canva, Disney, and Microsoft in one week 5:03 Budgets were already off by 2.5x 5:53 Three things for Monday 6:33 The Enterprise AI System of Record 7:26 The line for the board 7:41 Your question, and Tuesday's episode New episodes every Tuesday (AI ROI Series) and Friday (Enterprise AI Weekly). Subscribe at https://www.youtube.com/@olakai-ai Want to see your own cost per finished task? DM me on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulbrzozowski/ Learn more about Olakai, the Enterprise AI System of Record, at https://olakai.ai Sources. Tom's Hardware, CNBC, CS Monitor, and Forbes on the data center ballot measures, 4 to 5 Nov 2026; Rep. Yassamin Ansari on X, 4 Nov 2026, via Tom's Hardware; Washington Times, Apr 2026, and CNBC and Quartz, Nov 2026, on Sen. Sanders; Bloomberg, TechCrunch, and ABC on Canva; Menlo Ventures, 2026 State of Enterprise AI, 3 Nov 2026 (Menlo is an investor in Anthropic and OpenRouter). Political statements are reported without endorsement. All arithmetic is Olakai's own and directional. Your AI is an investment. Let's measure it like one.
