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Blockspace: Pope Leo Calls AI the Tower of Babel, China is Funding Anti-AI FUD, TeraWulf’s 1 GW KY Data Center

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🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Pope Leo has likened AI to the Tower of Babel, and the Chinese government is funding the push against AI data centers in the US. Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! For our top story today, Pope Leo’s latest encyclical – in which Leo likens AI to a modern, cyber Tower of Babel – gives us the Catholic Church’s official stance on AI. For interviews, Lygos Finance CEO Jay Patel touches on Strategy’s latest balance sheet clean up, and Sam Lyman of the Bitcoin Policy Institute joins us to talk about BPI’s new research on how China and other foreign actors are leveraging the media and dark money networks to astroturf opposition against AI data centers in the US. For other news, we break down TeraWulf’s plans for a 1 GW AI data center in Kentucky and Strategy’s repurchase of $1.5 billion in convertible notes and its latest BTC purchase. Check out our latest report, “What’s a Megawatt Worth?” where we quantify the trillion dollar opportunity for bitcoin miners venturing into the AI sector. Download here: https://megawattreport.com/ Subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates for all of our shows and content: https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com 👉CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK), a market-leading data center developer with a proven track record of success. 👉Luxor, Blockspace's preferred mining pool. Start hashing today with Luxor! 👉Lygos Finance, Borrow against your Bitcoin, without compromising on custody.

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0:00.0

What's going on, y'all? Welcome back to Blockspace Live, a Tuesday show, because yesterday

0:11.1

it was Memorial Day. So I hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend. And shout out to all of

0:17.0

the veterans and active service members for their sacrifices.

0:29.5

For today's show, we have got a little bit of, how should we say, Catholic musings as we unpack Pope Leo's latest comments on AI.

0:32.0

And in fact, they are not as anti-AI as you would think.

0:35.9

The Pope doesn't think AI is a demon, but he does have some

0:38.9

very strong thoughts on it. In fact, a few 10,000 words of thoughts. After that, we will have Jay Patel

0:44.3

of Lagos Finance on to talk about what else but strategy and then retiring $1.5 billion in debt,

0:51.0

along with its current thoughts on Bitcoin's market we then have sam lyman of the

0:55.0

bitcoin policy institute on to talk about anti-data center fud specifically how foreign actors

1:01.2

may or may not be influencing the dialogue related to data centers here in the u.s after that we're

1:07.1

going to touch on terra wolf's new gigawatt data center site in kentucky they announced

1:11.8

an acquisition today for land and power and they're planning a gigawatt plus data center in the state

1:16.9

second of their data centers in the great bluegrass state of kentucky and to close we're

1:23.1

going to be talking about strategies most recent bitcoin purchase and retiring their 2029 convert for

1:27.9

$1.5 billion.

1:30.6

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1:38.5

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1:39.5

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1:52.0

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