Behdad Bahrami

Founder @EdgecomEnergy. Scaling Demand flexibility for industry with AI.

I have a #duckcurve tattooed on my back.
Proud 🇨🇦

[Behdad Bahrami @bxhrami]

@surim0n @buildfutureto toronto

[Behdad Bahrami @bxhrami]

Passed through TSA screen in #ATL Hartsfield in <8 mins flat at 2pm today (March 24, 2026)

One ICE agent was standing between 2 TSA employees and helping them randomly when needed. No stress, no panic...

#Hartsfield-Jackson #Atlanta International Airport
#tsa

[Behdad Bahrami @bxhrami]

@john_macgowan You’re a fucking idiot.

[Lucy Hargreaves @lucyhargreaves4]

Alabama's unemployment rate is 2.7%. Canada's is 6.5%.

Alabama now manufactures nearly as many cars as Ontario.

How did the one of the poorest states in the US start outcompeting us?

The Globe went down there to find out. The short version: Alabama spent 30 years treating economic development like a serious strategy... landing investments, making it fast and easy to build, and clawing back incentives from companies that didn't deliver.

Canada spent the same 30 years writing reports about competitiveness and then not acting on them.

Eli Lilly just put a $6B pharma plant in Huntsville. That could have been Montreal.

Alabama is no paradise. Life expectancy is 74 vs 82 in Canada, minimum wage is $7.25. But there's a line in the piece that stuck with me. In 2007, the Harper government commissioned a competitiveness report. The conclusion as to why it's difficult to take the actions needed to be more competitive: "Canadians do not perceive that there is an imminent crisis."

The authors said you'd get the same answer today. I think they're probably mostly right. And as the Globe puts it: "If Canadians remain complacent, the rest of the world will eat our lunch."

We're in a crisis, folks. An imminent one at that. Time to get seriously aggressive about the changes we need to make.

[Behdad Bahrami @bxhrami]

Irans Government:

How do we get a bunch of Gen-Z’s who have no economic opportunities and no positive outlook on life to stop rioting?

I know! We’ll turn off instagram and TikTok.

#Iran #IranInternetBlackout

[Behdad Bahrami @bxhrami]

It would be valuable if the paper considered bilateral demand response as an option (swapped curtailment) While data centers can be flexible, there may be other loads on the same distribution feeder that could be curtailed more cost-effectively.

[Behdad Bahrami @bxhrami]

Biggest headache of switching from a Tesla to another EV - and it completely caught me off guard: having to carry a physical key.

The convenience of 1- always have your key in your phone or smart watch 2- being able to digitally give access to someone else, are both completely under rated.

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@tobi @TheBillykirk because I like Canada 🇨🇦

[Behdad Bahrami @bxhrami]

4-6 weeks ago it was all MCP this MCP that on X.

now…. crickets. What happened?

[Behdad Bahrami @bxhrami]

London has sidewalks. People don’t look at you funny for being a pedestrian in London. What a ridiculous comparison. I remember walking 1 mile in Houston, and I crossed a luxury townhome complex neighbouring a mechanic shop, neighbouring a factory. I’m all for capitalistic decision-making, but Houston is a bit ridiculous.

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@duncancampbell @EIAgov 👀👀👀 NGL this is a game changer. Thanks for the share.

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@tobi What if it’s @FellowAInotes cc @aydin

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@ddebow Great post! Thanks for sharing.

[Behdad Bahrami @bxhrami]

Hydrogen, Carbon Capture, Subsidized EVs 💀💀

Solar + Storage, VPPs, EVs with no subsidy that compete on their own merit 🏆🏆

Physics always wins.

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@MarkJCarney

[Martin Basiri @MartinBasiri]

New H1B Policy and Its Impacts on Canadians:

Since Canadian citizens can work in the US with a TN visa, we will see US companies actively seek to hire Canadians to attract talent instead of H1B from other countries. Many Canadian citizens will get great opportunities in the USA and leave. It means Canadian companies will have fewer top people here to hire. While much focus is on tech talents, there will also be aggressive healthcare recruitment from American companies and hospitals for nurses, lab technicians, and doctors from Canada. Since Canadian healthcare incomes don’t pay nearly as much as in the US for healthcare workers, and our immigration and foreign credential evaluation system is a mess, expect to hear more about talent shortages in Canadian healthcare. Remember that the median salary of Canadians who moved to the USA was C$142K last year, which means we will lose more high earners to the US—though this results in less tax revenue for Canada and, of course, lowers GDP per capita.

Opportunities:

1- Over the past few decades, the pathway for top students from Sharif, IIT, Tsinghua, Peking, and other leading universities worldwide has been to go to the US for a PhD and a Master’s, graduate, obtain an H1B visa, and work in the US. This is the route taken by people like Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, and many other prominent immigrants in the US. Notably, remember the 10 AI scientists Meta hired for $100M+ packages each? 7 out of 10 followed this path, so you know what calibre of people I am talking about. Since a few companies pay over US$100K for a new graduate (most likely they haven't flourished yet) this H1B fee will put pressure on US universities to attract geniuses. Canada should seize this opportunity and make it easier for graduates from the top 100 universities worldwide to come and study and work there instead. 25% of all unicorns in the US are founded by former international students, so this could have a huge impact on Canada's future and its tech industry. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity where Canada can seize the spotlight if it acts quickly and effectively.

2- To play it smart, Canada should develop a framework allowing American companies to bring their H1B employees to Canada under a special open work permit, provided their salary exceeds $140K (200K CAD). Attracting 20% of H1B workers, equal to 120K, this will generate around C$24 billion in annual income. C$10B in taxes and over C$30 billion in GDP impact, leading to more than a 1% growth in Canada’s GDP. The actual impact might be higher, as these workers will also bring their wealth to Canada, increasing overall spending.

3- For an additional, even smarter move, Canada should take a leaf out of Ireland’s book and introduce a special corporate tax rate of 12% for American companies that develop and retain their IPs in Canada. Ireland has been implementing this strategy for some time, and its GDP is experiencing significant growth.

[Behdad Bahrami @bxhrami]

@aphysicist Who said it’s supposed to be easy?

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@sweatystartup @stanwoodlivin Cavemen didn’t just “die at 30.” Average life expectancy was ~30–40 because so many kids died young. If you made it past childhood, living into your 50s or 60s was common. High infant mortality skewed the stats.

[Behdad Bahrami @bxhrami]

Some of y’all never played with legos and it shows.

[Behdad Bahrami @bxhrami]

Not everyone can withstand -40 winters and +40 humid summers, but that’s what makes us tough. We keep going, we keep building.

Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦

[Behdad Bahrami @bxhrami]

I think about this #PJM #DemandForecast a lot.