$300B Oracle Deal & OpenSpace’s Next Act

AI megadeals, government tech flops, and a new era for construction’s reality capture.

In this week’s Bricks, Bucks & Bytes episode:

💰 Oracle seals a $300B deal with OpenAI, propelling Larry Ellison past Elon Musk (for a moment).

📉 UK government’s Microsoft Copilot trial finds no clear productivity boost despite 10,000 licenses.

📸 OpenSpace’s CEO Jeevan Kalanithi joins to reveal how they’re moving beyond reality capture.

But that’s not all:

• Oracle’s forecasted data center boom to $144B by 2030, but can they actually build fast enough?

• Dustin explains why rosy projections sound like “startup pitches on steroids.”

• Martin unleashes on taxpayer money wasted in the UK’s AI experiments.

• We debate the ultimate workplace controversy: barefoot in the office.

🎧 Listen now for:

• Why Oracle might be the Levi Strauss of the AI gold rush.

• What OpenSpace’s shift from reactive to “field system of work” means for contractors.

• The hidden risks of overbuilding data centers.

• Where value engineering and AI could actually change how projects get priced.

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