Inside Palantir’s $100M Nuclear Gamble (And Construction’s Future)

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Owen Drury
July 08, 2025

Big tech’s building binge, nuclear's next act, and the future of construction software.

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

🚀 Big tech is reshaping construction — with data center demand forcing GCs to rethink capacity, speed, and standardization.

⚡ Palantir dives into nuclear — $100M partnership to streamline reactor builds with AI-driven ops.

🏗️ Is software really the answer… or is construction’s real bottleneck still capacity?


But that’s not all:

Patric drops a mind-bending stat: 22-28% of mature economy GDP comes from projects. In emerging markets? Closer to 40%.

The crew roasts “fundraising consultants” scamming desperate founders.

We tear apart the World Economic Forum's “Top 10 Emerging Tech” list. Spoiler: hydrogen didn’t make the cut.


🎧 Listen now for:

  • Why vertical integration (think Goldbeck) might be the future of GCs

  • What Palantir’s nuclear play really signals for construction tech

  • The hidden risks of consumption-based pricing models (and what Chamath gets right)


🗣 Bonus: Some personal highlights

  • Owen’s battling a London heatwave (finally got AC)

  • Martin’s dreaming of a Central European construction boom

  • Patric’s out here dropping $320B market cap flexes