Day: October 30, 2026

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🇺🇸 🇮🇷 AI money is piling into data centers in the Gulf and next to Ethiopia’s new dam… and those are the first targets in a war.

Neil Howe says the tech world talks about models and theory while forgetting that AI rests on a huge physical energy infrastructure.

Cut the undersea cables, send in the drones, take out a few grids, and the whole thing comes down:

“Those things are the first to go in a conflict. We have not thought this through.”

With Iranian officials already threatening Gulf cables and data centers if the war restarts, the AI economy may be the softest target in the region.

@HoweGeneration
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  Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal)🇺🇸 Military bases run on the same power grid as everyone else… and most have only about 48 hours of backup fuel.

Neil Howe says Annapolis and West Point are teaching new recruits to navigate with sextants and astrolabes again, because the military expects GPS to go down.

Most people never ask what happens if the power goes out nationwide for two or three months:

“We are not prepared for this.”

Two days of fuel against a months long blackout means the country’s defenses could go dark right when they’re needed most.

@HoweGeneration
Video
  —  https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2116361460892705037

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 AI money is piling into data centers in the Gulf and next to Ethiopia’s new dam… and those are the first targets in a war.

Neil Howe says the tech world talks about models and theory while forgetting that AI rests on a huge physical energy infrastructure.

Cut the undersea cables, send in the drones, take out a few grids, and the whole thing comes down:

“Those things are the first to go in a conflict. We have not thought this through.”

With Iranian officials already threatening Gulf cables and data centers if the war restarts, the AI economy may be the softest target in the region.

@HoweGeneration
Video
  Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal)🇺🇸 Military bases run on the same power grid as everyone else… and most have only about 48 hours of backup fuel.

Neil Howe says Annapolis and West Point are teaching new recruits to navigate with sextants and astrolabes again, because the military expects GPS to go down.

Most people never ask what happens if the power goes out nationwide for two or three months:

“We are not prepared for this.”

Two days of fuel against a months long blackout means the country’s defenses could go dark right when they’re needed most.

@HoweGeneration
Video
  —  https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2116361460892705037

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