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Welcome to The Quantum City Pod, the show where cities meet supercomputing.Hosted by Greg Gomer and Chase Garbarino, co-founders of HqO, we explore the boldest ideas and real-world breakthroughs at the intersection of AI, urban innovation, real estate, and public policy. Cities have always been civilization’s greatest supercomputers, concentrating talent, accelerating innovation, and scaling human potential.Now, it’s time for the next leap.Each week, we break down how Quantum Cities (intelligent, experience-driven urban systems) are reshaping how we live, work, and thrive. Through expert interviews, case studies, and grounded frameworks, we uncover how smart buildings, data-driven infrastructure, and civic design can transform complexity into clarity.If you’re building, governing, investing in, or simply curious about the cities of tomorrow, you’re in the right place.The Quantum City Pod is powered by HqO and the Quantum City Initiative. Subscribe and join the mission to build a m
HqO hosts The Quantum City Show, a business show with 38 episodes published.
The federal government just became a landlord for artificial intelligence. Last week it handed a shuttered Cold War uranium plant, ground lease and all, over to Brookfield and NextEra. $100 billion committed. A 1.2 gigaw
PJM Interconnection (the grid operator serving 67 million people across 13 states) went to market to buy power for 2028 and couldn't buy enough. So it did something no grid operator in America has done before: it told da
Powered by HqO - Learn more and join the Quantum City Initiative here: https://www.hqo.com/the-future-of-cities-begins-now/ Dubai just launched a live digital twin of the entire city - 195,000 buildings, 1,500 geospatial
Powered by HqO - Learn more and join the Quantum City Initiative here: https://www.hqo.com/the-future-of-cit... Greg and Chase just got back from HqO's EMEA customer advisory board, and the money in commercial real estat
Powered by HqO - Learn more and join the Quantum City Initiative here: https://www.hqo.com/the-future-of-cities-begins-now/ AI in commercial real estate has moved from “we should probably look at this” to “why don’t we h
Powered by HqO - Learn more and join the Quantum City Initiative here: https://www.hqo.com/the-future-of-cities-begins-now/ After years on the sidelines, the institutional giants are buying office again. SL Green, BXP, V
Powered by HqO - Learn more and join the Quantum City Initiative here: https://www.hqo.com/the-future-of-cities-begins-now/ China just opened the largest train station on earth. 1.2 million square meters. 7 years to buil
Powered by HqO - Learn more and join the Quantum City Initiative here: https://www.hqo.com/the-future-of-cities-begins-now/ 120 million square feet leased in Q1 2026. Best quarter in a decade. First time since before the
Powered by HqO - Learn more and join the Quantum City Initiative here: https://www.hqo.com/the-future-of-cities-begins-now/ Back in February, the AI panic ripped through CRE stocks and everybody bled. CBRE, JLL, BXP, New
Powered by HqO - Learn more and join the Quantum City Initiative here: https://www.hqo.com/the-future-of-cities-begins-now/ If you've been watching office vacancy hit record highs while office leasing also hits record hi
Powered by HqO - Learn more and join the Quantum City Initiative here: https://www.hqo.com/the-future-of-cities-begins-now/ We've been talking about what makes a quantum city for a while now. Rob is in the middle of buil
Powered by HqO - Learn more and join the Quantum City Initiative here: https://www.hqo.com/the-future-of-cities-begins-now/ 30% of office buildings in America are functionally obsolete. That's $1.1 trillion of commer
Powered by HqO - Learn more and join the Quantum City Initiative here: https://www.hqo.com/the-future-of-cities-begins-now/ When the AI panic hit Wall Street, the public markets went into an absolute whipsaw. Commercial
Powered by HqO - Learn more and join the Quantum City Initiative here: https://www.hqo.com/the-future-of-cities-begins-now/ In this episode, we sit down with Dominic Endicott, author of "Knowledge Towns" and has been thi
Powered by HqO - Learn more and join the Quantum City Initiative here: https://www.hqo.com/the-future-of-cities-begins-now/ In this episode, we talk with a guest who has shaped our thinking for years: Joe Pine. Most know
Powered by HqO - Learn more and join the Quantum City Initiative here: https://www.hqo.com/the-future-of-cities-begins-now/ AI isn’t a future concept anymore. It’s the infrastructure the economy is running on, and it’s s
Powered by HqO - Learn more and join the Quantum City Initiative here: https://www.hqo.com/the-future-of-cities-begins-now/ In this episode, we’re joined by Marwan Aboudib, partner at Tekuma (Tekuma Frenchman Urban Desig
Powered by HqO - Learn more and join the Quantum City Initiative here: https://www.hqo.com/the-future-of-cities-begins-now/ In this episode, we’re joined by Steve from the MIT Center for Real Estate, and we get into a re
Powered by HqO - Learn more and join the Quantum City Initiative here: https://www.hqo.com/the-future-of-cities-begins-now/ We’re back for the first episode of the year, and instead of pretending we have crystal-clear an
Powered by HqO - Learn more and join the Quantum City Initiative here: https://www.hqo.com/the-future-of-cities-begins-now/ Social media bans, AI data centers, and real estate signals—what a week. Australia’s move to ban
Joe Pine
Author, Founder of Strategic Horizons, LLP
1 appearance on this show
Sam Altman
AI Visionary and Billionaire Innovator · Tools for Humanity
1 appearance on this show
Travis Kalanick
Uber founder
1 appearance on this show
Daniel English
Legacy Investing
1 appearance on this show
Marwan Aboudib
Tekuma
1 appearance on this show
Steve Weikal
MIT
1 appearance on this show
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