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Imagine that to solve for global AGI you need power and cooling.

If you go to space, you get more power and cooling and far less regulations, but your access is limited by the tyranny of gravity, limiting your short-term capabilities to mostly inference (comms) — a very extremely large inference network in any case.

If you stay on Earth you're limited by regulations and power and cooling, but you can build the most powerful training and inference network ever.

Why not do both and more?

The tropics have very stable and very high solar radiation potential — Energia. The tropics also has quite a lot of water, with only one small hitch: more salt than necessary. But the solution to this adds even more potential. Water cooling is very efficient. Freshwater is excellent for life and civilization. Ocean water contains important minerals like lithium. This opens a new commodity industry while enabling AGI. The prices to convert salt water into fresh water using AI and energy abundance creates more cooling potential. Water treatment desalination tech is even more important moving forward.

These industries, unlike fossil fuel of the past, are not limited by scarcity and quantity of access to crude. This is extremely important. Extremely. As, the TAM becomes the entire planet and all its inhabitants. Not simply those that can afford access to limited crude and refined products, from afar. The Sun shines everywhere. Solar, wind, and batteries work everywhere. This too is extremely important.

The potential profitable synergies are extremely great. This is more than a substitute for fossil fuels. In fact, it will make the former seem small.

Trinidad and Tobago seeks deals with US companies for data centers | AP News https://share.google/j04H0EH9QzlLEaHu3

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — Trinidad and Tobago has signed agreements paving the way for U.S. companies to begin groundwork for installing large data centers in the Caribbean nation, sparking concerns about potential energy consumption and environmental impacts.

The memorandums of understanding with the Florida-headquartered Hummingbird AI Holdings and New York-based Ernst and Young LLP were signed on Friday, according to a statement from the office of Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar. These are the first such agreements with a Caribbean country.

The deal with Ernst and Young LLP will set out the framework for collaboration on developing large-scale data centers, with the company planning to “partner with third parties in the development” of a 300 megawatt data center, the statement said.

The agreement with Hummingbird AI Holdings sets up the framework for “preliminary cooperation, due diligence and coordination” for a proposed 150 MW AI infrastructure and data center facility.

Data centers are listed with a megawatt figure to indicate their electrical power capacity to operate at peak load. The 300 MW center has a capacity of 300 million watts of electricity.

The deals raised online questions about the environmental impact of the centers.

Renowned social activist Dr. Wayne Kublalsingh told The Associated Press he was concerned about the energy consumption by the planned data centers.

The government is “trying to present something which looks like development, but which is not development,” he said.

Trinidad and Tobago has long grappled with chronic water shortages and intermittent supply, raising concerns that large, water-intensive data centers could place additional strain on an already overstretched system.

The majority of the twin-island country functions on water schedules set by the state’s utility company. Most homes have water tanks since the supply in their taps can be as rare as once a week. In some instances, communities have gone weeks without water being supplied by the state company.

Data centers could account for nearly 3% of the world’s projected electricity use by 2030, with 935 trillion watt-hours, according to a recent United Nations University report. The environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world’s largest countries, according to the report.

Electricity supply in Trinidad and Tobago has improved over the years. While there are still power outages at times in parts of the country, they are rare.

Trinidad and Tobago’s government signed a third agreement with another American company, Pinnacle Steel and Vanadium Corporation, which recently acquired a local iron and steel plant. Government officials said the agreement allows for further talks on recommissioning operating the plant.

The government said the three initiatives, combined, are expected to generate over 5,000 jobs.

The prime minister has been a strong supporter of the Trump administration. Her office said the U.S. government played a role in facilitating the parties involved in the agreements.

“They’re going to invest here to work on data centers, two for data centers, and one to help us rejuvenate and rebuild our steel industry,” Persad-Bissessar said Friday night, speaking at a U.S. independence anniversary celebration ceremony hosted by the U.S. Embassy in Trinidad and Tobago.

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"Be rid of toxins and muppetry — always."

In so doing, battery electric data centers with access to water seems a good... maybe even aligned idea. If you're thinking less 'center', but still 'yes' to the data, have you heard of the Supercharger MegaPods? It's a network of distributed and collocated energy and compute nodes: it comes with batteries, electric infrastructure, and EVs all aligned. A packaged deal. Together, they form a type of dispersed datacentre wherein real world AI can work through the vehicles, the locations' servers, and the connection with satellites. You can place them all over the island; as you wish. Win-win-win-win... It's an option, and/or additions. 😈 As you wish...

Data centers are important. Batteries will make them sustainably profitable: zero medium or long term global supply chain fossil exposure 🫲🏾 Think clearly, TnT: Batteries. In any case...

EU pushes to TRIPLE energy storage as renewable power goes to waste | Euronews https://share.google/H7gBUenOKxRJtAeEw

EU energy ministers signed the first-ever tripartite agreement to boost the bloc’s energy storage capacity on 26 June. The EU needs 200 gigawatt (GW) of storage capacity by 2030, compared with the current 55. 22 member states promised to add around 30-35 GW of new capacity by 2028.

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In terms of industrial: 1GW ≈ 1 Billion dollars. Thus 200 GW is a brilliant start. Given 55 billion now, and 150 billion to go, by 2030, 🤔 the maths look very favorable. Vroo 🤫 🫳🏾 Buzz buzz

And that's just for the EU 😈

More. Faster. 🫲🏾🙃 and Home batteries

Solar generated record 25% of EU power in June with Germany, Spain and Poland leading the race | Euronews

Solar generated record 25% of EU power in June with Germany, Spain and Poland leading the race | Euronews https://share.google/9eoOkN8PitOfRJcf1

For the first month ever, solar power provided a quarter of the EU’s electricity this June.

Solar generated a record 52 TWh of EU electricity in June 2026, making up 25 per cent of monthly generation for the bloc. This beat solar’s previous monthly high of 47 TWh (23 per cent) in May 2026.

Solar was the EU’s largest single source of power for the month, ahead of nuclear (21 per cent), gas (15 per cent), wind (14 per cent) and hydro (12 per cent), with coal generating just 8 per cent. This is only the third month that solar has been the EU’s largest source of power, after June 2025 and May 2026.

“Solar’s rise has been truly stratospheric, beating prediction after prediction,” says Chris Rosslowe, senior analyst at Ember think tank which did the analysis. “In just a few years solar has gone from a small player to an essential part of Europe’s power system, as governments and citizens look for low-cost, quick-to-install domestic power sources.”

In June of 2021, solar generated just 10 per cent of the EU’s power (21 TWh).

Solar is low cost and quick to install

Solar has grown by more than a fifth every year in the EU between 2021 and 2025 – the fastest growth of any power source. This is predominantly due to a high pace of installations, with 65.1 GW of new capacity installed in 2025.

Record solar output in June coincided with relatively high summer power demand, driven partially by demand for cooling due to record-breaking heatwaves. Solar helped sustain power supplies as other power sources struggled in hot and still conditions.

Spain is leading Europe’s renewables revolution

Solar’s growth is visible across the EU’s Member States. In 2026 so far, 18 EU countries have hit new monthly records for the percentage of power from solar.

In Spain, solar generated over a third of power in June 2026 for the first time (34 per cent). This is thanks to the country’s incredible investment in clean energy. Since 2019, it has doubled its wind and solar capacity, adding over 40 GW – more than any other EU country except Germany, whose power market is twice the size of Spain’s.

This is paying off for consumers. Spain’s electricity bills have fallen while many other countries have seen a rise since the energy crisis caused by the outbreak of the Iran war. Ember analysis shows that households have each saved €10 per month on their electricity bills since the Hormuz strait was effectively closed in March.

Spain did not use coal-fired power at all in August 2025. A far cry from just 10 years before, when coal accounted for a quarter of Spain’s power.

It shows how fast countries can change their energy sources – if they choose to. “You don’t need Spanish sunshine to achieve what Spain has done – every country in Europe could be making better use of its own wind and solar resources to reduce reliance on expensive gas,” argues Rosslowe.

This is all excellent news for emissions, too, of course. Spain relied on fossil fuels for just 25 per cent of its electricity in 2025 meaning its per capita emissions of 0.9 tonnes of CO2 equivalent were below the EU average of 1.3 tonnes of CO2e.

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The world does not move without creativity. In fact, it's about to stop 😈