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Our underground AI data centres are the beginning, not the end.
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Article by the author of ‘Chip War’ @crmiller1
Our underground AI data centres are the beginning, not the end.
@RomullusInfra
Article by the author of ‘Chip War’ @crmiller1
JUST IN: AI data centers could soon require blast-resistant concrete, anti-drone defenses, & missile protection as attacks on computing infrastructure escalate worldwide. — Financial Times
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Martin Prince-Parrott RIBA FRSA 🇬🇧 retweeted
good article
Silicon Valley, you're about to find out what it's like to be an oil company.
Everybody wants your product cheap. Nobody wants your plant next door. Then the price goes up and you're the asshole.
Compute is the new gasoline.
Latest Old Man Coffee. Link in the first reply.
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Martin Prince-Parrott RIBA FRSA 🇬🇧 retweeted
Since Elon and his companies moved to Austin, Tesla has become one of the metro's largest private employers, with ~16.5K jobs & ~$1.4B in annual wages. (This was a quick search, so feel free to check my numbers)
Combine Tesla, SpaceX, Boring, & Neuralink, and I think you are at about 20K jobs across the Austin metro, second only to HEB.
On a personal note, what he's building has been extremely inspirational to me and my family.
We watch every Starship launch. We even drove down to Brownsville to watch Flight 6. We're very excited about the next one, when they attempt to catch the ship.
We own a Tesla, and FSD is game changing. My kids actually get mad at me when I drive instead of letting the car do it.
I see the Cybercab swarm taking over Austin and all the opportunities that opens up. (🙏 enable Cybercab for teens, it would be life altering.)
As someone in Bio, watching Neuralink advance medicine is amazing. I had a chance to meet and have a quick chat with @ModdedQuad when he came to Austin a while back, and hear firsthand what this tech has made possible.
And that's just the Austin metro.
It doesn't even count everything being created around Starbase in Brownsville or Terafab in Grimes County.
I moved from California to Texas around the same time Elon did. The draw of the frontier, an innate permission to build, and freedom are this state's superpower.
We need to keep that and keep the builders who thrive in that environment.
Combine Tesla, SpaceX, Boring, & Neuralink, and I think you are at about 20K jobs across the Austin metro, second only to HEB.
On a personal note, what he's building has been extremely inspirational to me and my family.
We watch every Starship launch. We even drove down to Brownsville to watch Flight 6. We're very excited about the next one, when they attempt to catch the ship.
We own a Tesla, and FSD is game changing. My kids actually get mad at me when I drive instead of letting the car do it.
I see the Cybercab swarm taking over Austin and all the opportunities that opens up. (🙏 enable Cybercab for teens, it would be life altering.)
As someone in Bio, watching Neuralink advance medicine is amazing. I had a chance to meet and have a quick chat with @ModdedQuad when he came to Austin a while back, and hear firsthand what this tech has made possible.
And that's just the Austin metro.
It doesn't even count everything being created around Starbase in Brownsville or Terafab in Grimes County.
I moved from California to Texas around the same time Elon did. The draw of the frontier, an innate permission to build, and freedom are this state's superpower.
We need to keep that and keep the builders who thrive in that environment.
SpaceX and Tesla have prospered in Texas, because we were not constantly operating under an oppressive and extractive state government.
And I need to be close to the factories, so that I can walk the floor in person. That’s why the first major SpaceX factory was in LA and first major Tesla factory was in SF Bay Area.
As California became increasingly difficult, due to extreme taxes and overregulation, we moved our major domestic expansions and HQ to Texas.
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sincerely the realest thing I’ve read on this app in a long time.
logging off, nothing tops this.
logging off, nothing tops this.
It took me a long time to realize the key lesson of the Trojan Horse. It's not that it took bravery, that if they failed, they would all die (they would). It's much worse than that. If they failed, nobody would say "good effort" "heroic" "tragic" "iconic". No, everyone would say "what a bunch of stupid f*cking weirdos!! Hahaha, losers. Thought you were tricky? Hide in a wooden horse? WTF??? Serves you right". And that's a fear that holds a lot more people back from greatness than the fear of death.
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Does @arena have reports laying these stats out?
The GPU availability in the UK is dire. I was speaking to teams who cannot get even a dozen of 3rd-tier GPUs from their cloud provider in the UK. Startups have more geographical freedom, but a lot of larger regulated businesses are silently screwed.
What possible sovereignty could we be talking about if banks, telecoms or the NHS can't have even modest capacity to run the models. Not even talking about training.
On top of that, even for managed inference all big clouds barely have local capacity and are bringing models to the UK very slowly.
This should be a case for an emergency.
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🇫🇷 FLASH - LFI a dévoilé le programme de Jean-Luc Mélenchon pour la présidentielle de 2027. Parmi les propositions :
- Autoriser jusqu’à 3 jours d’arrêt maladie autodéclaré, sans consulter de médecin.
- Accorder 7 jours de congé après le décès d’un ami.
- Porter le SMIC à it une hausse de 220€.
- Ramener l’âge de départ à la retraite de 64 à 60 ans, avec une retraite à taux plein après 40 années de cotisation.
- Réduire progressivement la durée du travail à 32 heures par semaine.
- Instaurer un service écologique obligatoire de 9 mois pour les moins de 25 ans, rémunéré au SMIC.
- Faire rembourser les soins à 100% par la Sécurité sociale.
- Prendre en charge les séances de psychothérapie des moins de 26 ans.
- Fixer un plafond de 12 millions d’euros pour les héritages.
- Augmenter les APL de 10% pour aider à payer les loyers.
- Bloquer les prix de certains produits essentiels afin de limiter les hausses excessives.
- Revaloriser les salaires des fonctionnaires.
- Garantir un revenu minimum aux jeunes grâce à une allocation.
- Proposer aux étudiants des repas à 1€.
- Limiter à 1 pour 20 l’écart entre les rémunérations au sein d’une même entreprise.
- Soumettre les aides publiques aux entreprises à des engagements sociaux et écologiques.
- Rétablir l’ISF afin d’accroître l’imposition des grandes fortunes.
- Mettre en place la taxe Zucman pour taxer davantage les milliardaires.
- Répartir l’impôt sur le revenu en 14 tranches pour augmenter la contribution des plus riches.
- Engager une sortie progressive du nucléaire.
- Atteindre une production d’électricité issue à 100% des énergies renouvelables d’ici 2060.
- Interdire les vols entre 23h et 6h.
- Suspendre les zones à faibles émissions (ZFE), qui restreignent la circulation des véhicules les plus polluants dans certaines villes.
- Passer de la Ve à la VIe République en donnant davantage de pouvoir aux citoyens.
- Supprimer le 49.3, qui permet au gouvernement de faire adopter un texte sans vote.
- Intensifier la lutte contre les discriminations, notamment au sein de la police.
- Reconnaître comme crime d’État le massacre des Algériens du 17 octobre 1961.
- Renégocier les traités européens et refuser l’application de certaines règles européennes jugées incompatibles avec le programme.
- Quitter progressivement le commandement militaire intégré de l’OTAN.
- Soutenir la création d’un État palestinien aux côtés d’Israël.
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> Warnings were sent to Irish broadcaster RTE, Britain's Sky, Bulgarian private station Nova TV and others, the companies said.
> No bombs were found at any affected site.
> The emails were title ‘MESSAGE TO THE WEST’
> @RomullusInfra
> No bombs were found at any affected site.
> The emails were title ‘MESSAGE TO THE WEST’
> @RomullusInfra
Bomb threats warning 'the clock is ticking' disrupt TV channels across Europe reut.rs/488ivuH
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Martin Prince-Parrott RIBA FRSA 🇬🇧 retweeted
“Almost all of my founder friends agree that the only reliable sources of funding for risky early ideas are rich people who angel invest as a hobby and accelerators like YC.”
This is a reality of the growth of multistage platforms, which are structurally and empirically nture capital has reached a point that will be familiar to economists:
1) a mixed market
2) a bubble occurs
3) capital inflows expand
4) the bubble bursts
5) rapid consolidation
6) incumbents capture core markets
7) the periphery is vacated
8) the rise of specialists
This is an accelerated version of “resource partitioning”, as described by Carroll & Swaminathan — with their original case study looking at the beer industry:
Market consolidation up to the 1980s (a result of economies of scale, M&A, marketing costs) led to consumers growing bored of dominant “industrial beer”.
Then came the craft beer revolution of specialist microbreweries, taking the peripheral market of unique beer styles for the beer enthusiast customer base.
So, microbreweries grew from effectively 0% of retail dollars in 1980 to about 25% of retail dollars today.
On top of this, industrial brewers now use microbreweries as external labs who experiment with concepts in the market which the industrial brewer could take to scale.
So, in VC terms, we are in 1980 — with the early surge of small specialists being felt in programmes like @govclab, or funds like @briansin’s GPx.
<$10M funds are around 1% of VC allocation today. I expect that to grow to >10% over the next few years as it becomes clearer that the discovery layer needs funding if the venture strategy is to maintain an edge.
More: credistick.com/narrative-shac…
This is a reality of the growth of multistage platforms, which are structurally and empirically nture capital has reached a point that will be familiar to economists:
1) a mixed market
2) a bubble occurs
3) capital inflows expand
4) the bubble bursts
5) rapid consolidation
6) incumbents capture core markets
7) the periphery is vacated
8) the rise of specialists
This is an accelerated version of “resource partitioning”, as described by Carroll & Swaminathan — with their original case study looking at the beer industry:
Market consolidation up to the 1980s (a result of economies of scale, M&A, marketing costs) led to consumers growing bored of dominant “industrial beer”.
Then came the craft beer revolution of specialist microbreweries, taking the peripheral market of unique beer styles for the beer enthusiast customer base.
So, microbreweries grew from effectively 0% of retail dollars in 1980 to about 25% of retail dollars today.
On top of this, industrial brewers now use microbreweries as external labs who experiment with concepts in the market which the industrial brewer could take to scale.
So, in VC terms, we are in 1980 — with the early surge of small specialists being felt in programmes like @govclab, or funds like @briansin’s GPx.
<$10M funds are around 1% of VC allocation today. I expect that to grow to >10% over the next few years as it becomes clearer that the discovery layer needs funding if the venture strategy is to maintain an edge.
More: credistick.com/narrative-shac…
almost all of my VC friends agree that venture investing is too crowded, that the returns are getting competed away
almost all of my founder friends agree that the only reliable sources of funding for risky early ideas are rich people who angel invest as a hobby and accelerators like YC -- many of whom repeatably earn returns vastly greater than venture firms
it'd be one thing if everyone acknowledged this gap and attributed it to, say, the downstream incentives of big funds earning big management fees
but most people who aren't founders genuinely seem surprised to learn that pre-seed capital is scarce
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Martin Prince-Parrott RIBA FRSA 🇬🇧 retweeted
If you hate data centers, lead by example and give up the internet, streaming, apps, messaging, AI, and everything else that depends on them.
Otherwise, you’re just demanding the benefits of infra you don’t want built.
Otherwise, you’re just demanding the benefits of infra you don’t want built.
BREAKING: Hundreds of protesters break into a Microsoft data center site in Amsterdam.
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Martin Prince-Parrott RIBA FRSA 🇬🇧 retweeted
The claim that data centers are a large drain on the nation's water does not hold up. Its just false.
In 2024, large U.S. data centers consumed an estimated 19–23 billion gallons on site (Han et al., 2026). For scale, that’s about 4% of the 532 billion gallons U.S. golf courses that same year (GCSAA, 2025).
The golf figure includes recycled water, and the data-center figure covers on-site consumption only.
There are so many false statements about data centers that, given better knowledge, must be labeled as lies.
In 2024, large U.S. data centers consumed an estimated 19–23 billion gallons on site (Han et al., 2026). For scale, that’s about 4% of the 532 billion gallons U.S. golf courses that same year (GCSAA, 2025).
The golf figure includes recycled water, and the data-center figure covers on-site consumption only.
There are so many false statements about data centers that, given better knowledge, must be labeled as lies.
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Martin Prince-Parrott RIBA FRSA 🇬🇧 retweeted
The Baltic States, so close to Russia, have always been level-headed in their ability to assess opportunity and risk.
A pitch to host Texas’s compute infrastructure from Lithuanian MP:
‘And should you decide to visit, I’ll personally make sure there’s proper Texas-style smoked brisket waiting for you.’
Texas’s loss, will be someone else’s gain … *should* the leadership be so short-sighted as to give up Texas’s pole position to become the most dynamic economic and innovation zone on earth.
A pitch to host Texas’s compute infrastructure from Lithuanian MP:
‘And should you decide to visit, I’ll personally make sure there’s proper Texas-style smoked brisket waiting for you.’
Texas’s loss, will be someone else’s gain … *should* the leadership be so short-sighted as to give up Texas’s pole position to become the most dynamic economic and innovation zone on earth.
Dear @elonmusk,
Texas voters have sent you and Donald Trump a rather clear message.
And now that Texas may be preparing to show your data centers the exit, Lithuania is ready to offer them a new home in Europe.
As a member of Lithuania’s Parliament, I would like to personally invite you to consider Lithuania for your next major AI infrastructure investment.
We welcome ambitious investments, disruptive ideas and powerful technology.
Lithuania may be smaller than Texas, but in ambition, creativity and opportunity, we are second to none. Not even Texas.
And should you decide to visit, I’ll personally make sure there’s proper Texas-style smoked brisket waiting for you.
Just one condition: here, democracy isn't for sale.
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Martin Prince-Parrott RIBA FRSA 🇬🇧 retweeted
Darwin’s theory of evolution strongly suggests that Western society ain’t gonna make it, folks.
This literally the week that Europe sees cyber attacks on critical infrastructure: freezers in supermarkets across Europe malfunctioning, an attempt to destroy food supply; temperatures in blood banks in France are being destabilised too.
We know that AI is already capable of exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in every single operating system (!) - see what happened with PHP? Was that ten days ago?
The head of the British Intelligence service says to prepare for malicious AI-assisted cyber attacks from
China, Russia, Iran and North Korea.
European leaders are telling citizens to prep with cash, medical supplies and a few days of food and water.
North Korean hackers just used AI to automate at scale the emptying of crypto wallets at machine speed to steal a vast amount: enough to fund their nuclear weapons programme for an entire year. At $6 billion dollars it was the largest heist in history.
The cherry on the pie? Yesterday’s METR evaluation shows that Anthropic is on course to get to AGI/RSI even faster than expected, by early next year. And we KNOW that open source is only a few months behind the frontier.
And yet, we want to ban and burn data centres, literally the core infrastructure to defend us from adversaries armed with Superintelligence.
It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
This literally the week that Europe sees cyber attacks on critical infrastructure: freezers in supermarkets across Europe malfunctioning, an attempt to destroy food supply; temperatures in blood banks in France are being destabilised too.
We know that AI is already capable of exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in every single operating system (!) - see what happened with PHP? Was that ten days ago?
The head of the British Intelligence service says to prepare for malicious AI-assisted cyber attacks from
China, Russia, Iran and North Korea.
European leaders are telling citizens to prep with cash, medical supplies and a few days of food and water.
North Korean hackers just used AI to automate at scale the emptying of crypto wallets at machine speed to steal a vast amount: enough to fund their nuclear weapons programme for an entire year. At $6 billion dollars it was the largest heist in history.
The cherry on the pie? Yesterday’s METR evaluation shows that Anthropic is on course to get to AGI/RSI even faster than expected, by early next year. And we KNOW that open source is only a few months behind the frontier.
And yet, we want to ban and burn data centres, literally the core infrastructure to defend us from adversaries armed with Superintelligence.
It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
BREAKING: Hundreds of protesters break into a Microsoft data center site in Amsterdam.
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