Energy. AI. The physical world. 🇺🇸
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I’ve never posted on X.
Last year I was at Department of Energy with an unusual view into what’s happening across AI, energy, and infrastructure. The old systems can’t handle what’s coming.
There’s just an insane amount we need to build in the physical world, and the opportunity and urgency are greater than ever.
Every able person should be contributing to the effort, and I’ve gotten back into the arena to do my part. More to come soon.
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adamblake retweeted
hundreds of MI355x and B300 nodes
now live on nationalcompute.com
subsidized for all .edu and .govs
it’s time to scale the frontier ecosystem
for the public benefit
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Incredible. First commercial construction permit for an SMR AND approved in 14 months vs the many years it used to take.
This is what the “new NRC” looks like. Americans should be proud. Now the even harder part… actually building the reactor.
HISTORIC: We just approved the first-ever U.S. commercial small modular reactor construction permit, completed ahead of schedule in just 14 months, through efficient, safety-focused review. The future of advanced nuclear starts now. nrc.gov/about-nrc/news-relea… #NRCNews
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A lot of people on X are rooting for Oracle to fail. This is both weird and dumb.
Oracle is an American company putting real capital, real steel, and real balance sheet risk into the AI race. Building multi billion projects is hard and can be messy.
If America is going to win this AI race, somebody has to be out there pushing limits. Oracle is doing it. We should be cheering them on. 🇺🇸
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Chris and I go way back, so it’s only fitting my first podcast was with him.
We covered a lot, including a few things I’ve never talked about publicly before.
Today I sit down with Adam Blake (@adamblake), Co-founder and CEO of Mavria. Adam spent a little more than a year leading the DOGE team inside the Department of Energy. He has been a private person for 15 years, and last week he broke his silence with a tweet that got over 2 million views.
I have known Adam since 2004. I had just gotten to TCU, and the school paper named him Entrepreneur of the Year for the real estate he was buying around campus. One lunch with him at a Chipotle changed the trajectory of my life.
He went on to build a commercial solar company that did around 2,000 projects across 17 states, then sold a software company to Vista Equity Partners. In early 2025 a friend called about DOGE. Within about a week he was on a plane to DC, and two weeks after that he was sitting in the West Wing with Elon Musk and the Secretary of Energy.
The executive order that set a goal of three new nuclear reactors going critical by July 4th, 2026 put his team in charge of making it happen. Everyone thought it was impossible. It got done. Along the way he got death threats over an anonymous quote that the chairman of the NRC later denied under oath.
Now he is building Mavria with two of the people who were in those rooms with him, backed by a $30M pre-seed from a single investor. His view is simple. AI is power, and America has to build a lot more of it.
Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(01:18) Why He Decided to Speak Publicly Now
(04:37) From Campus Real Estate to Brightergy to Zego
(09:03) The Week That Took Him From Coronado to the West Wing
(13:02) What DOGE Was Actually There to Do
(19:52) Inside the DOGE Team, Working Under Elon
(24:53) Why He Calls Washington the Hunger Games
(28:08) The Tijuana Sewage Crisis Nobody Has Fixed
(31:45) Three New Reactors by July 4, 2026
(35:02) Death Threats Over a Story That Was Never True
(41:52) Why Fear Is Not a Strategy on AI
(49:09) Why It Takes a Decade to Plug Into the Grid
(55:30) Winning Back Public Trust on Data Centers
(1:02:29) Spec Builds, Modular Factories, Smaller Data Centers
(1:08:52) Why Big Tech Should Behave Like a Nation State
(1:14:15) Inside Mavria, His New Infrastructure Company
(1:19:45) Loving the Country More, Hating Politics More
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This @PirateWires story is how the nuclear work inside government actually got done.
Ryan talked to many of the people who made it happen.
Credit belongs to the career teams at DOE, INL, DoW, and NRC who pulled it off. I was lucky to help.
America can still do hard things. 🇺🇸
Last May, President Trump signed 4 Executive Orders: kicking off a race to turn on 3 nuclear reactors by July 4th.
I talked to the people who made it happen: including @SecretaryWright, @emundz42, @adamblake, @OverReactor1776, and Rian Bahran.
Exclusively, how the Trump administration laid the groundwork for an American nuclear renaissance.
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