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Austin Cassidy

@_austin_cassidy

Co-founder @GetLifeLegacy | CRE Financial Analyst

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Pacific Palisades wild fire from my office window in DTLA. First video taken at 11am. Second video taken 1 hour later at noon.

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DTLA Apple Store is closed until further notice after the looting last night. Looks like they are preparing to board up the windows too. Everything inside is cleared out

DTLA Apple Store is closed until further notice after the looting last night. Looks like they are preparing to board up the windows too. Everything inside is cleared out
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Stores in Downtown LA’s jewelry district are removing all their jewelry via Brinks guards then boarding up. Spoke to one of the shop owners - they think it’s going to get worse this weekend

Stores in Downtown LA’s jewelry district are removing all their jewelry via Brinks guards then boarding up. Spoke to one of the shop owners - they think it’s going to get worse this weekend
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POV footage of getting caught in the wildfire on I-5 yesterday (burnt 90 acres). Apparently it was sparked by a head-on collision from a wrong-way driver.

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Based on TMZ's video, this was the escape route Charlie Kirk's shooter took. The house where the video is taken is pinned. The rifle was likely dropped in that wooded area. They may have parked the getaway car in the vacant lot where the arrow ends or across the street in the LDS

Based on TMZ's video, this was the escape route Charlie Kirk's shooter took. The house where the video is taken is pinned. The rifle was likely dropped in that wooded area. They may have parked the getaway car in the vacant lot where the arrow ends or across the street in the LDS
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Recent AI data center hysteria over energy & water usage has 3 main drivers: #1. China amplifying the narrative to slow US AI progress #2. Classic boomer NIMBYism #3. Lingering ESG dogma baked into culture, fueling #2 and the exact lever #1 exploits

Recent AI data center hysteria over energy & water usage has 3 main drivers:
#1. China amplifying the narrative to slow US AI progress  
#2. Classic boomer NIMBYism 
#3. Lingering ESG dogma baked into culture, fueling #2 and the exact lever #1 exploits
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AI data centers are accidentally reinventing 100 year old steel mill power design. Early factories and steel mills ran on DC power and were built next to their own power plants because the machines needed DC + transmission was hard/inefficient. AC won for the grid, but inside

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SoftBank just announced their acquisition of DigitalBridge for $4 billion in cash. (DigitalBridge has a vast portfolio of data centers, towers, and fiber infra) Looks like a strategic vertical integration move. My theory is that Masayoshi Son is betting that by owning these

SoftBank just announced their acquisition of DigitalBridge for $4 billion in cash. (DigitalBridge has a vast portfolio of data centers, towers, and fiber infra)

Looks like a strategic vertical integration move. My theory is that Masayoshi Son is betting that by owning these
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Now that 2025 is coming to a close. Here's a list of the top 10 data center related acquisitions of the year. ▶️ ~$40B: Aligned Data Centers; BlackRock/MGX-led acquisition of a global hyperscale & AI data center platform ▶️ ~$9.5B: Boyd Thermal (data center cooling); acquired

Now that 2025 is coming to a close. Here's a list of the top 10 data center related acquisitions of the year.

▶️ ~$40B: Aligned Data Centers; BlackRock/MGX-led acquisition of a global hyperscale & AI data center platform
▶️  ~$9.5B: Boyd Thermal (data center cooling); acquired