In the 35th installment of The Atomic Exchange Podcast, co-hosts Dr. Goran Calic and Michael Tadrous open with a light check-in that turns into an unexpected strategy lesson: IKEA’s modular design, network effects, and why flat-pack execution often beats “custom” complexity. From there they head to Castle Rock, Colorado, where rooftop solar appears on roughly every other home, and work through the mystery with incentives, politics, ROI math, and what might really be driving adoption when prices and policy do not fully explain it. The episode then shifts to AI power at industrial scale, unpacking Elon Musk’s Colossus data centers, 122-day build timelines, gas turbines staged just over the Mississippi–Tennessee line, the path to a gigawatt site, and how funding from personal equity, Gulf capital, and intercompany charges could fuel a winner-takes-most race. They close by asking what a Musk playbook would look like in nuclear, from radical simplification to factory-built units, and whether utilities should keep options open for a new wave of fast, standardized builds. Tune in for a practical, numbers-first tour of consumer tech, rooftop economics, and AI-era electricity.