@MPrinParr

Underground AI + Quantum data centres @RomullusInfra • Designed hyperscale compute • Ran £165m RE portfolio + P&L • Alum Futureal @Gensler @UniofNottingham

 Oxford, London & Birmingham
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(Validation via @FT) Our underground AI data centres are the beginning, not the end. @RomullusInfra Article by the author of ‘Chip War’ @crmiller1
Polymarket
@PolymarketOct 19
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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Pablo Antonio
@PabloAntonio14h
You should think of the future frontier labs less like a for-profit company or non-profits and more like an intelligence agency
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Underground Strategic Infrastructure is the future. Compute is just the beginning. @RomullusInfra
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the best of America 🇺🇸
Cary Hawkins
@CaryHawkins_20h
Mattis is nearly peerless as a warrior-philosopher, up there with Stockdale. I'm grateful this nation has men of his caliber
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Cary Hawkins
@CaryHawkins_20h
Mattis is nearly peerless as a warrior-philosopher, up there with Stockdale. I'm grateful this nation has men of his caliber
Mark Delaney
@markbdelaney20h
Replying to @CaryHawkins_
Be courteous Be kind Have a plan to kill everybody
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Casey Handmer
@CJHandmer6h
To paraphrase Letorneau, inventor of diesel construction machinery, AI is not to make small jobs easy, it's to make large jobs small.
AYi
@AYi_AInotesOct 23
网景创始人 、硅谷顶级投资人Marc Andreessen 在访谈里坦言，他看到了科技史上最可怕的一道认知鸿沟， 传统巨头以为 AI 只是个降本增效的插件，而新一代 AI 原生团队，正在用完全非人的组织效率掀翻整个商业版图。 当年写出网景浏览器、见证了整个互联网三十年兴衰的 Marc Andreessen，坐在 Ben Horowitz 面前直接发出了感慨， 如果 1994 年我们做 Netscape 的时候就有今天这种 AI 工具，那简直不可想象。 现在绝大多数传统巨头和现有企业，依然在用改良软件的旧思维去看待大模型。 在他们的组织逻辑里，AI 只是一个高级功能，用来给现有业务做个插件、在钉钉里加个智能助手、或者把客服团队砍掉 20% 省点成本。 他们以为自己在拥抱变革，其实只是在给老旧的蒸汽机打补丁。 但真正恐怖的事情，正在那些刚成立的 AI 原生团队里发生。 那些创始人对 AI 能力的理解，跟大厂完全不在同一个平行宇宙。 他们每周都在看着底层技术飞速进化，而且他们压根不会把自己定义成一家软件公司、硬件公司、甚至是一家 AI 公司。 以前创办一家公司，你的组织架构是按人类的协同瓶颈搭出来的： 招产品经理写文档、招工程师写代码、招法务改合同、招运营做投放。 因为人类的脑力带宽有限，所以必须靠庞大的部门和管理层级来支撑业务。 而真正的 AI 原生物种，是用机器智能作为最底层的骨架。 两个人加上一整套自动化 Agent，可以直接把从市场洞察、软件工程、全栈设计到商业销售的链路全部跑通。 他们不是在效率上快了 30%，他们是在组织形态上彻底跨越了一个物种。 大厂的盲区，从来不是买不起算力，而是他们无法理解组织本身才是最大的负债。 当现有企业还在开会讨论如何把 AI 塞进现有的业务流程时，新一代的野蛮人正在用完全超越行业界限的方式，把传统的业务流程连根拔起。 未来拉开人与人、公司与公司之间差距的，根本不是你用了哪个模型，而是你到底是在用新工具维持旧世界的体面，还是用新世界的底层逻辑，重新定义了自己能做的事情。
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Jigar Shah
@JigarShahDC14h
Good summary. Governors will mandate “Bring Your Own New Capacity” for all powered land buyers. Siding with Data Centers is not good politically right now. Voters want lower bills and only mandatory load flexibility does that.
JordanSolace
@JordanSolace15h
Chamath & Elon back n forth laying out bear case for AI/DC boom… fascinating Chips aren’t the bottleneck anymore. Power & cheap capital are… Grid queues are jammed, hyoerscalers will feed themselves power first Ik the crunch, and 2027 we will see GPUs paid for but sitting idle… (waiting for power) Stranded compute On top of that.. debt mkts (per Elon) are shut down for anyone w/out but non AI revs.. most Neo clouds cannot say that 👀 Hindsight this is obvious.. but you see why Neoclouds funded with debt backed by there own GPUs are under pressure OR .. developers without secured power/land and of course anyone with a bit maturity wall in 27 is fucked Every month you wait on the grid = interest ⬆️ + aging chips Many of the Neo clouds also promise perfect availability/uptime but if there are outages at all… oh man. Customers will walk or there will be HEAVY penalties A good deal on paper can flip real fast. Who does this look good for when power is the bottleneck… Battery + storage components (faster grid hookups & bridge power) On site generation like fuel cells & turbines Transformers & switch gear Owners of powered land IG Hyperscalers of course Energized megawatts & cheap capital. Whoever has those will set the terms 2027.. maybe a shakeout for neoclouds & tailwind for selling power. Just interesting to read exchange below.. nothing new
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Second renaissance age of discovery.
Defense Analyses and Research Corporation
@DefenseAnalyses19h
The idea that the law of space should fundamentally resemble the law of the sea is a midcentury idea keyed mostly to a tentative, early era of exploration. Now, the criticality of zero-sum assets like Lagrange points and lunar ice for colonization, the importance of particular launch corridors for high throughput operations, and the highly national quality of LEO constellations suggest that technology will make holding "interplanetary territory" the more apt paradigm for how civilizations will compete and transact in this domain.
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Dr. Julie Gurner
@drgurner15h
Holiday tip for you: If your grandparents ask you what you want for Christmas, tell them you want them to write down all of their recipes. The ones they keep in their head, and probably have never put to paper. It will cost them nothing, and be the best gift of your life.
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no-one is shocked by this.
Polymarket
@Polymarket21h
JUST IN: California rehab operators accused of supplying illegal drugs to recovering addicts to keep them hooked & collect over $210 million from insurers.
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One of the reasons @RomullusInfra exists is because defence ministries around the world (understandably) prioritise the defence of their own assets and personnel. IMHO they do not pay sufficient attention to counter value targets and civilians. We believe that defence tech should include the protection of the economy and civilians that power the war machine. This is why Golden Dome exists. But Golden Dome can not and will not protect the interior from spider-head / golden lion style attacks on critical strategic infrastructure.
unusual_whales
@unusual_whales19h
BREAKING: The Pentagon has launched “FORTRESS America,” an initiative ordering major military bases in the continental US to be able to run on their own for at least 90 days. Bases will need to keep power, water, fuel and communications running independently, without relying on outside supply.
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Ryan
@tslrynOct 24
Elon Musk understands something that the political establishment desperately wants people to forget. Government isn’t some magical institution that protects you from concentrated corporate power. It is concentrated power. And unlike corporations, it has the legal authority to use force against you. Now imagine giving that power to a global government. One political hierarchy. Billions of people. No competing jurisdiction to escape to. No meaningful alternative when the people in charge decide your rights are inconvenient. That’s not progress. That’s the blueprint for the most terrifying monopoly in human history. Look at what’s happening across Europe. More authority concentrated in distant institutions. More regulatory power. More restrictions on speech. More decisions made by people ordinary citizens can barely hold accountable. The answer has always been decentralization, private property, free markets, and the freedom to walk away. Yet the political left keeps demanding more centralization, more bureaucracy, and more authority over ordinary people. And somehow they call that liberation. What a fucking joke.
Elon Musk
@elonmuskOct 24
Replying to @Rothmus
Those who are opposed to corporations and favor government do not realize that government is simply the largest, most monopolistic corporation of all and it has a monopoly on violence.
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infinite storage underground someone should industrialise the process of placing materiel in the ground, starting with AI data centres and underground off-grid energy @RomullusInfra
Fox News Politics
@foxnewspoliticsOct 25
FORTRESS: The Pentagon is preparing every major U.S. military base to survive 90 days without outside support — no civilian power grid, no global supply chains, no outside fuel or water. The initiative, revealed in documents reviewed by Fox News Digital, envisions portable nuclear reactors, massive battery storage, and microgrids that can disconnect installations from civilian electricity entirely. Strategic reserves of munitions, fuel, critical minerals, and medical supplies would be stockpiled based on wartime consumption rates. Civilian factories are being pre-identified to shift to defense production during a crisis. Pentagon chief spokesperson Sean Parnell put it bluntly: "Power is combat now. Without electricity, you lose communications, water, logistics, assembly lines and just basic military command structures." Full story here foxnews.com/politics/inside-…
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John Spencer
@SpencerGuardOct 25
Smart. I believe homes should be prepared to survive at least 3 or more days without power or services as well - water, food, medicine, critical supplies, generator, power banks.
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it was ever thus 🇬🇧
Liberite 🇬🇧 🇪🇺@brownliberiteOct 25
We are a rational actor on an irrational continent.
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Dan Gray
@credistickOct 25
It’s fitting that the late Bill Draper, a titan of VC, ended up at the top of this list, with @shv, and @TimDraper also made it into the top 10 with @DFJvc. I wouldn't be surprised if @AdamDraper joined them in future with @BoostVC. Truly a generational run.
Odin
@JoinOdinOct 25
The Top 50 VC Firms Ranked by the long-term value created by primary investments per dollar at risk. The top 10: 1. @shv 2. @foundersfund 3. @iaventures 4. @gigafund 5. @Lowercase 6. @pelion_vp 7. @usv 8. @benchmark 9. @BessemerVP 10. @DFJvc Read more: blog.joinodin.com/p/the-top-…
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wait. they aren’t creating SPVs!?
BenSu
@BenArendiOct 24
Replying to @BenArendi
GPUs are a very capital intensive asset class. But most of the smaller neoclouds I see don't treat them like one. Every cluster, every customer contract and every loan sits in the same company. CoreWeave doesn't do it like that... it ACTUALLY does it right.
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