Fun (and quick) history lesson. The Roman general Marcus Licinius Crassus was a politician known for taking down Spartacus. He also happened to be the richest man in Roman history, with a fortune equivalent to $2 trillion today. How did acquire this fortune? ⬇️

Tired of stealing Pierre Poilievre's talking points, the gov't reanimates a Harper creation!

Just 119 gigawatts of data center interconnection requests in one Texas utility service territory

This is all trump needs to keep trumping. Blame him if you want, but the problem has always been obvious to the entire planet.

Gallup: % of Americans who are satisfied with the way things are going in U.S. right now 🔵 Democrats - 0% (lowest ever) 🔴 Republicans - 76% The 76-point partisan gap is the largest Gallup has measured on this question.

🇨🇦: oh, the irony. In the Handmaid’s Tale, 🇨🇦 is the place of freedom & refuge for those fleeing the oppressive Gilead regime. In reality, Alberta schools just banned it among other books. Obviously can’t have kids in 🇨🇦 thinking freedom is a value worth embracing.

🇨🇳 Tesla is down 40% in Europe. BYD is up 300%, taking the lead in most markets despite being a newcomer.

The battery boom has begun🔋⚡️ 69 GW were installed in 2024. That's 66% more than in 2023. Battery storage is modular, flexible, fast to deploy and prices are still falling. Its growth trajectory looks more like consumer electronics than traditional infrastructure.

The “can opener” assumption is about a physicist, a chemist, and an economist who survive a shipwreck together. They’re on a desert island, with nothing to eat but cans of baked beans that washed up from the wreck. The chemist says that he can make a fire using nearby palm

World's largest sand battery now live in Finland 100 MWh heat storage Intermittent WWS electricity heats sand up to 400C. Air sent through pipes in the sand heats up and produces steam for industry and hot water for district heat newatlas.com/energy/largest… Christian Breyer 🦣

Obvious to anyone paying attention but nice to see visualized BloombergNEF data across regions: "The average size of data centers planned for 2025-2030 is significantly larger than those built in the past"

🇨🇦: Does anyone believe it was an accident? The same Gov is currently ramming through laws to eliminates all digital privacy in 🇨🇦. It even legalizes encryption backdoors.

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Nvidia $NVDA is now worth more than Canada 😂😂

1/12 In 2010, a US gov study warned that rebuilding America's rare earth supply would take 15 years. The 15 years are up. China just proved its leverage by forcing trade concessions from Washington. Meanwhile, Japan quietly solved the same problem. bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

Amazon has never had a wider spread between free cash flow and operating income. $AMZN

Here’s how Americans 🇺🇸 spend their day

Good thread on US vs Japan on #REEs. If US can build out secondary recovery of permanent magnets that would go a long way.

Yes, it's true that Canada saw near-record emigration in 2024. But... it's also true that it is quite low as a percentage of total population: