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Notes from a working developer.

On power, sovereignty, edge inference and the architecture of the most consequential decade of infrastructure investment in living memory.

Power

The next bottleneck is not silicon. It is substations.

Chips get the headlines; grid connections decide the winners. Why interconnection queues, not fabrication capacity, will set the pace of the AI buildout, and what twenty years in renewables taught us about jumping them honestly.

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Sovereignty

Sovereign AI and the new geography of compute.

Nations are concluding that intelligence is critical infrastructure, and that it should live at home. What sovereign AI programmes mean for where the next gigawatts get built, and who gets to build them.

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Energy

Powering AI without breaking the grid.

Data Centres are becoming the grid’s largest new customer. The developers who arrive with generation, flexibility and additionality, not just load, will be the ones communities and regulators say yes to.

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Capital

Patient capital for impatient demand.

The AI era wants capacity yesterday, financed for thirty years. How to structure capital that matches the duration of the asset, and why the mismatch is where most developers will fail.

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Edge

Edge inference and the return of distance.

Training centralises; inference distributes. As AI moves from labs into daily life, latency turns geography back into strategy, and distributed edge networks into the quiet winners of the decade.

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Markets

The gigawatt is the new unit of ambition.

Five years ago a 50 MW campus made news. Today the serious conversations start at a gigawatt. What changed, what it means for grids and capital, and why discipline matters more as the numbers get bigger.

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