West Texas doesn't need to build its next workforce entirely from scratch.
We already have electricians, mechanics, I&E techs, operators and troubleshooters with perhaps 80% of the skills the next generation of industry needs.
The question is: How quickly can we teach the other 20%?
That's the subject of my third West Texas Thesis article:
The Workforce Is Already Here.
Cattle. Cotton. Crude. Cloud.
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Unless you are a gas business who is vertically integrated...meaning you pump the oil, refine the oil, and sell the oil then you would have no idea what's really going on. If you are on the retail side of things you just get the supply that the refiners allot you and at the price you can bargain for, depending on how much volume you sell. That's it. Your job is to try and own and run locations in a way that best moves product. Past that, there is nothing you can figure out. You are a pawn on a huge chessboard able to move in ways dictated by the game.
West Texas has spent generations moving energy to the customer.
AI creates an interesting possibility:
What if we bring the customer to the energy?
Natural gas → electricity → compute.
We're still exporting West Texas energy.
We're just exporting the value differently.
You can have the land.
You can have the capital.
You can have the power.
You can have the project.
Eventually, somebody has to show up and make it all work.
The AI infrastructure boom is going to be a workforce story, too.
West Texas has spent generations feeding America, clothing America, and powering America.
I think we may be getting ready to help compute it, too.
Cattle. Cotton. Crude. Cloud.
I wrote about why AI infrastructure could represent the next chapter of the West Texas economy:
Cattle. Cotton. Crude. Cloud. https://t.co/Z6E33FOKfZ
#westtexas #permian #EFT #rural
@jeffreyklose@GideonOPowell@PWisdom777
West Texas has spent generations feeding America, clothing America, and powering America.
I think we may be getting ready to help compute it, too.
Cattle. Cotton. Crude. Cloud.
I wrote about why AI infrastructure could represent the next chapter of the West Texas economy:
Cattle. Cotton. Crude. Cloud. https://t.co/Z6E33FOKfZ
#westtexas #permian #EFT #rural
@jeffreyklose@GideonOPowell@PWisdom777
"Bitcoin is the most misunderstood invention in modern history, which is why it is also the greatest opportunity."
This article goes deep on the energy, game mechanics, and macro social psychology underpinning the Bitcoin protocol. Enjoy!
I did a field presentation for a High-scool in OH today just outside Columbus about Off-Grid Bitcoin mining, and this is a little bit of what i told them...
No Hype, No Mercy, Just POW.