For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.
AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.
The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.
https://t.co/AUKzoQ5Ikb
As the great Warren Buffett once said:
“The best investment is not in yourself. It’s in a bankrupt shoe retailer that pivots to AI datacenter operations.”
@duncancampbell CCGTs are great but a few reasons:
1. Some locations don’t have access to firm gas
2. Diversity of dispatcheable power
3. Longevity. Best energy asset is a fully depreciated nuclear power plant
new essay: “The Coal-to-Gas Switch Was Neither Accident Nor Design.”
The argument: U.S. power-sector decarbonization was not just a technology story or a fuel-price story. It was also an institutional story about market rules, incentives, and system design. 1/3
💠For a 627-MW West Texas data center, a dedicated combined-cycle gas plant offers a 20-year cost of roughly $2.9 billion
💠A solar + battery system costs about $6.2 billion over the same horizon - a $3.5 billion premium...
(source: S&P global)
Berkshire Hathaway recouped its purchase price for BNSF in Q1 2019, nine years after purchasing the railroad for $33.5 billion. And the cash continues to pour in...$4.4 billion last year alone.
2026 will see cumulative dividends near 2x the purchase price.
$BRKA $BRKB @BNSFRailway