RonSFriedman

AI datacenter construction cost like 10 Apollo programs... and done by the private sector.
Insane.

Alberta has the energy. Silicon Valley has the algorithms.
The 2026 midterms are over. The people who just won (and lost) will spend the next two years fighting over the past.
The real contest is still open: who builds the cheap, reliable power and the compute capacity that actually shapes the next 20 years?
Who’s betting on that race right now — and who’s still stuck arguing about last night?

GM ... What's new and exciting?

What is the greatest risk to Western Civilization

What is the greatest risk to Western civilization?

By promoting an AI Datacenters moritorium, Calgary mayor Jeremy Farkas, is harming Calgarians.
He was elected on the platform of lowering property tax.
What is a better way of lowering property tax than ask the most lucrative business on the planet, to invest in Calgary?
Businesses that can pay hundreds of millions a year taxes, and help, via regulation, in upgrading water and electricity infrastructure?
@JeromyYYC, consider changing your mind. This is the best way to lower property tax.

Election Day 2026.
Politicians are still arguing about the next 2 years.
AI is already building the next 20.
Go vote — then go build.

The pro-Palestinian Lefties and I have a different frameworks of the world.
They see the world through a Marxists oppressive / oppressed duality glasses. But instead of dividing humanity based on Marxist economic classes, they divide people based on precirved skin color.
I don't care about skin color.
I divide the world into people who believe in live and let live, and people who don't.
If you believe in live and let live... Power to you. Wishing you success, and I'll gladly help you thrive.
However, people who don't believe my family, my kin and I should exist, are my enemies. And I don't car

Democrats are favored to take the House. The Senate is still a coin flip. Either way, the next two years of Trump’s term just got a lot more interesting. Watching the returns.
Good luck.

Energy abundance → Compute abundance → Intelligence abundance.
Alberta already understands this. Ottawa still thinks the order is reversed.

@grok Turn my X bio + my last few posts into the back-cover blurb of a bestselling hard sci-fi novel. Give it a punchy title + one-line tagline. Then generate the cinematic movie-poster style cover with Grok Imagine. Finish with what a critic would say in one savage sentence.

As a Jew" Jew.
Classic.
~99% of the people who say that phrase are ethnically a Jew. But religiously they are not Jews but Marxists.

AI Datacenters will be useful.
I can't wait for AI to find a cure for cancer, and have self-driving cars 10x safer than human drivers.
Curing cancer, cardiovascular diseases and reducing car accidents by 90% can save the lives of 150,000 / day.
That's two Gaza wars a day.

The Gaza war isn’t in the top 10 deadliest conflicts of this century. No major economic impact. No critical resources. No trade routes.
Yet it’s dominating progressive midterm messaging and campus energy.
The obsession isn’t about human rights.
It’s because it involves Jews.
I’m a Zionist. Israel has the right to exist and defend itself.

How far are we from self-replicating datacenters?