Alex Petropoulos 🤠

Increasing Europe's Agency in the AGI transition.
Director of Strategy @arqfoundation

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[Alex Petropoulos 🤠 @AlexTPet]

Today is my first day as Director of Strategy for @arqfoundation.

My co-founders and I worry that Europe is not on track to maintain its agency in the AGI transition.

However, we are optimistic that this is a solvable problem!

How? Via Access, Bottlenecks and Resilience..

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@GholderGm real

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EU Commission's Data Centre Acceleration Zones Proposal:

Good:
- Regulation, not directive, saves 12-24 months
- Brownfield-first
- Access-once permitting at zone level

Bad:
- Grid connections not included, so may fail like the UK's AI Growth Zones

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@pietergaricano I think we are aiming to put out something longer tomorrow!

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@F_McCullough @o_mcpartlin king

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@Andreasbonde11 not bald

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presently suit shopping, rate the fit

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@jmeteixeira and currently importing more carbon-intensive gas from abroad !

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@Miles_Brundage 🫡

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@BeatrizGietner rate my view

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@S_OhEigeartaigh congratulations !

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@F_McCullough @o_mcpartlin @ProgressIreland I will be there!

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@notanastronomer @ShakeelHashim you have the enthusiasm :)

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@notanastronomer @arqfoundation @indevmag a pants-optional workplace!

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Want to wear shorts in the office? Come work at @arqfoundation! Our CEO even had the grippers out wearing Birkenstocks today.
(We also have a formal-wear budget for when you have to talk to important people!)

[Nicholas Decker @captgouda24]

I want to be a grad student because I want a job where I can wear shorts 365 days a year. Sometimes 366.

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@NathanpmYoung the fact that he spent so much time talking about young people but said nothing on housing

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@notanastronomer @80000Hours started from the bottom now we're here

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@MaxReddel @arqfoundation in a (mostly) good way!

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@DadaJudith @bakkermichiel only if we can make it cool like the Barcelona supercomputer

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@BeatrizGietner @F_McCullough are the reading groups on your CV?