Data-center and AI-infrastructure authority — and the faith, leadership, and loss behind what drives the work.
Data centers, AI power, and the operators building what comes next — broker-grade insight from inside the room.
The redemption arc beneath the résumé. What actually drives the work when the lights go off.
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.
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.
Every episode uncovers the stories, struggles, victories, and lessons that shaped the people behind the headlines.
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.
Both shows, the data-center intelligence, and the conversations behind them — operator-grade, no noise, one inbox.