The power grid is becoming the bottleneck. Data center buildouts are running into local resistance, energy constraints, and political fights that look nothing like the usual tech discourse.

No agenda, no slides, just come and share your insights and perspective.

TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION

Who wins when a data center proposal meets a town council? What do your personal benchmarks for agent quality actually look like, and how do they differ from the leaderboards? Is persistent memory a UX problem, a safety problem, or an architecture problem? What changes when your AI actually remembers you?

HOW TO FIND US

Exit thru back of coffee shop. Turn left, there is a metal curtain and lounge. Walk past the metal curtain and look for the people debating whether their Claude knows them better than their therapist. Snacks will be on the table.

WHO SHOULD COME

Builders, researchers, observers, and anyone paying close attention to infrastructure politics and what memory means for machine minds.

Free — buy your own coffee.

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AI Northwest Coffee Social - Data Center Drama, Personal Agent Benchmarks, and the Dream of Persistent Memory