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Texas is mass importing foreigners with the H-1B Visa program These are the top 10 companies with H-1B Visa approvals just in Dallas Texas - KPMG LLP 2,675 approvals - UT Southwestern Medical Center 1,379 approvals - Dallas Independent School District 1,290 approvals - AT&T Services, Inc 1,204 approvals...

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$IREN: Fake vs Real Power Something that appears to be overlooked by the broader $IREN investor community, and especially by analysts, is the recent set of ERCOT (Texas grid) changes. For a long time, most data center developers could purchase random parcels of land, or secure land through option agreements, and then claim they had a “multi-GW” power pipeline in Texas. Somewhere in the footnotes, they would then clarify: *Pending grid studies, interconnection agreements, and ERCOT approvals.* It used to be difficult to distinguish between what was “real” power and what was, at best, aspirational. That was especially true for projects already halfway through the process, such as those that had partially completed grid studies but had not yet secured the remaining approvals. This led to a tsunami of “fake” power claims from operators across the industry, many of whom used inflated pipeline claims to support their valuation and strengthen their negotiating position. With the new ERCOT changes in place, that is no longer possible. The statewide grid operator has now introduced a new batching system that categorizes projects based on real, tangible progress and the steps they have taken, queuing them accordingly. As of today, it largely comes down to whether your project is in “batch 0, base load”. If you are not in this initial batch, you can effectively kiss your project goodbye until, at the very earliest, 2028. For the first time, counterparties (i.e., customers) and investors alike can distinguish between what is real and what is fake, or at best still many years away. This plays directly into $IREN's hands, as it is one of the few operators in the space that has always been straightforward about its power pipeline, only announcing sites that have gone through all the necessary steps and approval requirements. As such, $IREN's Sweetwater 1 & 2 sites are all but guaranteed to be in the first “base” batch, with additional unannounced sites also likely to be part of it. These new changes undoubtedly strengthen $IREN's negotiating position, as the pool of seemingly near term capacity has now shrunk by a meaningful margin.

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🚨 Ford’s deadly 401 speed gamble While big rigs continue to kill and injure Ontarians, Premier Ford is increasing speed limits along major highways. On July 11, 2026, a clear afternoon on the eastbound 401 near Townline Road in Cambridge turned deadly. Nine vehicles collided in a massive pile-up. A 44-year-old man from Kitchener was airlifted but ultimately succumbed to his injuries, and fifteen others were injured. All eastbound lanes were closed for ten hours. A transport truck driver was arrested for dangerous driving and later released pending investigation. More and more, this is no longer an isolated tragedy on North America’s largest – and Ontario’s busiest – highway. While transport trucks make up roughly 3% of vehicles on the road, they are involved in 12% of fatal crashes. At least that’s what Auditor General Shelley Spence said in her May report, which detailed just how dangerous and inadequate commercial truck driver training has become in the province. The report detailed how private career colleges were skipping required hours, cutting programs from the mandated 103.5 hours down to as little as 59 or 81, in some cases. Students were not taught basic emergency stops or left turns at major intersections. Unregistered schools are issuing certificates, and dozens of colleges operate entirely uninspected. The 2017 Entry Level Training standard has largely collapsed under this weak government oversight. While the Ford government accepted every one of the AG’s recommendations, real enforcement has been notably absent. Adding insult to injury, just days before the Cambridge crash, the Globe and Mail reported that nearly 100 trucking companies with serious safety violations and failed audits, and Ottawa had approved wage theft orders to hire temporary foreign workers. Of those, several Ontario firms with conditional safety ratings continued operating with these approvals. Many companies use “Driver Inc.” models that misclassify drivers as independent contractors. This allows them to dodge proper wages, overtime, and hours-of-service rules. The result is financial pressure that encourages cost-cutting and incentivizes drivers to stay on the road, even when they should be taking a break. The Ontario Trucking Association has been calling on the government to do something about this for years. Stronger enforcement measures include “tightening oversight of immigration, revamping licensing and audit processes, and introducing changes to the way truck inspection stations operate,” they wrote in October last year. Meanwhile, the Ford government is busy raising speed limits across long stretches of the 401 and other highways. Passenger cars can now travel faster while heavy trucks are supposed to remain electronically governed at 105 km/h. Yet given the documented failures in training, inspections, and company oversight, many drivers rightly question whether those limiters are properly installed, set correctly, or enforced at all. Premier Doug Ford and Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria cannot have it both ways. Families heading to cottage country and commuters on the 401 should not have to play Russian roulette every time they merge onto the highway. You cannot flood the roads with drivers produced by a broken training system and questionable hiring practices, then raise speeds and act surprised when the body count rises. The scope and risks of this system require immediate action: full audits of every truck driving school, aggressive 24/7 enforcement on speed limiters and illegal operations, an end to rubber-stamping temporary foreign worker approvals for companies with safety violations, and prioritizing safety over speed increases until the system is fixed. Full report by Tamara Ugolini 🇨🇦.

Rebel News

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Tesla is deploying $50 BILLION across 6 factories, a chip fab, robot production lines, AI supercomputers, lithium refineries, and solar manufacturing. To put that in perspective: Tesla made $477 million in profit last quarter. And is investing at roughly 100x that rate. Every other CEO on Earth would get fired for that ratio. Elon's doing it on purpose. Here's what he's assembling: - Own chip factory (TERAFAB with Intel, $25 billion, targeting 1 terawatt of AI compute per year) - Own energy grid (Megapacks powering entire cities) - Own robot workforce (Optimus production starting this year, 1 million units per year at Fremont, 10 million per year planned at Giga Texas) - Own transportation network (robotaxi live in Austin, Dallas, Houston with zero accidents, expanding to 9+ cities) - Own AI training infrastructure (Cortex 2 supercomputer online, 280,000 GPUs by June) - Own lithium refinery (Texas, ramping now) - Own solar panels (new design with 3x the power zones of conventional panels) - Own satellite compute (80% of TERAFAB output going to SpaceX orbital AI satellites) This is just insane. No company in history has attempted to own this many layers of its own supply chain simultaneously. Amazon took 20 years to become profitable because Bezos reinvested every dollar into infrastructure. Wall Street called him insane the entire time. Elon is running the same playbook but across MORE industries, at a FASTER pace, and with technology that didn't exist 5 years ago. The TERAFAB alone is designed to produce 70% of the output of the world's largest semiconductor foundry. Under one roof. Logic chips, memory, and packaging all vertically integrated. But why is he doing this? Elon said existing suppliers including TSMC, Samsung, and Micron simply cannot supply Tesla at the levels it needs. When you can't buy enough of what you need, you build the factory yourself. That's the Henry Ford playbook from 1920. Ford owned the rubber plantations, the iron mines, the glass factories, the railroads, and the forests that supplied his assembly lines. Elon is doing the same thing. Except his version includes orbital data centers, humanoid robots, and autonomous vehicles. The AI5 chip is already taped out. His team worked 6 months straight through holidays and weekends to finish early. He called it the best edge compute inference chip in existence. They're already designing AI6 AND Dojo 3. Meanwhile Tesla's FSD has 1.3 million paid subscribers globally. Record new subscriptions last quarter. Regulatory approval just landed in the Netherlands. China approvals expected by Q3. While every other automaker is trying to figure out how to compete with BYD on price, Elon is building the infrastructure layer that makes the car almost irrelevant. Because if you own the chips, the energy, the robots, the AI, the transportation network, AND the manufacturing... The car is just the interface. The real product is the ecosystem. Elon is spending $50 billion to build a parallel economy that doesn't depend on anyone else's supply chain, anyone else's chips, or anyone else's energy grid. That's closer to being a country than just a company. And whether you love him or hate him, nobody else alive is even attempting this.

Ricardo

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Today I sit down with Rex Glendenning, founder of REX Real Estate and the man known across North Texas as the "King of Dirt." Rex is a fourth-generation Celina native whose great-grandfather homesteaded 160 acres in 1887. Over the last four decades he's brokered billions in DFW land deals - including the $130M public-private partnership that brought the Cowboys to Frisco - while quietly running a 4-broker shop out of his hometown. We unpack his patience-and-dirt playbook, why he believes DFW is becoming the financial epicenter of America, and how he reads a real estate cycle years ahead of the rest of the industry. We discuss: - How Rex originated the Star deal in 60 days - and why Frisco won the Cowboys instead of Irving - His foundational theory: why every American city grows north (with one exception) - 40 years of plowing every dollar back into dirt - and the year his wife sat him down - Why he believes DFW becomes "Y'all Street" - the next Wall Street - Why he never scaled past three brokers - "three killers beat fifty wannabes" - His read on where we are in the cycle - and why 2028 is the recovery I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did. Timestamps: (05:20) Learning When to Shut Up in Business and Life (08:53) Growing Up Rural in Salina & the Work Ethic It Built (11:02) Why Every City in America Grows North (14:18) Betting on the Pandemic: $1 Billion in Deals with Just His Wife (23:38) The Star Deal: How Rex Helped Move the Dallas Cowboys to Frisco (30:23) Small Towns vs. Big Cities: The Public-Private Partnership Advantage (40:24) DFW Airport as the Hidden Engine of North Texas Growth (44:06) The H-1B Visa Pullback & Its Real Impact on the Housing Market (48:11) How Rex Thinks About Surviving a Recession (56:23) Will an "Artery Pop" in '26 or '27? (01:00:26) Why Rex Is Worth 6%: Full-Service vs. Order-Taking Brokers (01:04:43) Selling the Same Ranch 7 Times Over 40 Years (01:19:03) What Keeps Rex Up at Night: Reading the Current Market Cycle

Chris Powers

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Elon Musk just confirmed the most INSANE IPO in history. SpaceX is going public in 2026. $1.5 TRILLION valuation. Raising $30+ billion. That's the biggest IPO ever made. Beating Saudi Aramco's $29 billion record from 2019. But here's what everyone's missing: This isn't about space tourism or Mars missions. Elon is literally about to win the entire AI race. And 99% of people have no idea how... Here's the problem killing every AI company right now: POWER. Oracle just reported earnings. They burned through $12 BILLION in one quarter building data centers. Their free cash flow? NEGATIVE $10 billion. Revenue missed estimates. Stock crashed 11%. Microsoft, Amazon, Google all scrambling to find enough electricity for AI training. The brutal math: The US generates 490 gigawatts of total power. AI is projected to need 123 gigawatts by 2035. That's a QUARTER of the entire electrical grid. Just for artificial intelligence. Goldman Sachs says AI energy demand could jump 165% by 2030. There is literally not enough power on Earth to run AI at the scale these companies are promising. Every data center needs massive cooling systems. Billions of gallons of water per year. Insane energy costs. And the infrastructure can't keep up. Elon's solution? Stop building on Earth entirely. SpaceX is building data centers in SPACE. Not a concept. Not 10 years out. Literally starting in 2026. They're upgrading Starlink V3 satellites to carry AI computing chips. Each satellite gets 24/7 solar power. No clouds. No night. No weather disruptions. No grid bottlenecks. And the insane part is that Starship can deliver 300 to 500 gigawatts of solar-powered AI satellites into orbit every single year. At 300 gigawatts per year, the AI computing power in space would exceed the entire U.S. economy's total electricity consumption within two years. Just from satellites. Processing in orbit. While Oracle is begging banks for loans to finish data centers and OpenAI is stuck in circular funding arrangements with Microsoft, Elon already owns everything: The rockets. The satellites. The launch infrastructure. The AI company (xAI). He doesn't need to ask utilities for permission. Doesn't need grid approvals from local governments. Doesn't need to build nuclear plants or wait for clean energy. He just launches. And everyone else is scrambling to catch up: Jeff Bezos sees it. Blue Origin announced they're building their own orbital data centers. Google just launched "Project Suncatcher" with plans to deploy AI satellites by 2027. Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, literally BOUGHT an entire rocket company (Relativity Space) just to compete in this space. But they're all 3+ years behind Elon. SpaceX already has 6,000+ Starlink satellites in orbit. The infrastructure is built. The $30 billion from the IPO? Going straight into scaling orbital compute. SpaceX revenue is jumping from $15 billion in 2025 to $24 billion in 2026. Most of that from Starlink. Now add space-based AI infrastructure on top. Here's why this matters: Whoever controls orbital computing controls the AI revolution. And there's only ONE company on Earth with fully reusable rockets that can launch at the scale required. Jensen Huang, Nvidia's CEO, called space data centers "a dream." Translation: Nvidia is screwed if Elon actually pulls this off. Because if SpaceX succeeds, every AI company on the planet becomes Elon's customer. OpenAI needs compute? Running on SpaceX satellites. Google needs more capacity? Renting orbital infrastructure. Microsoft needs power? Paying SpaceX for launch and compute access. Elon won't just be in the AI race. He'll own the entire track everyone else is running on. The $1.5 trillion valuation sounds crazy until you realize what he's actually building. It's not a rocket company. It's the infrastructure layer for the next 50 years of computing. People calling it overvalued have no idea what's coming.

Ricardo

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🚨ALERT: 50% of Data Centers will NEVER connect to the grid. Half of the data centers announced in the last 24 months will NEVER connect to the grid. Kevin O’Leary said it. The data proves it. While everyone’s chasing “paper capacity,” $CIFR and $IREN are sitting on EXECUTED grid connections that can’t be replicated. Here’s why they’re untouchable: 266 GW of power projects canceled in 2025 alone. That’s 2.4x the cancellations from 2024. Why? Because the U.S. grid is facing a structural deficit that nobody wants to talk about. • Data centers need 18-36 months to build • Grid connections take 5-7 YEARS (sometimes 12) • Interconnection queues in PJM and ERCOT now average 7 years • Average interconnection cost in MISO: $753,116 per MW Translation: You can announce a data center tomorrow. But you CAN’T connect it to power until 2032. The math doesn’t work. The timeline doesn’t work. The physics don’t work. $CIFR - The Fixed-Price Power Moat: Cipher control one of the lowest-cost power portfolios in North America. > Power cost: $0.027/kWh (fixed, long-term PPAs) > Debt: $0 > Portfolio: 2.2 GW across Texas But here’s what everyone’s missing: Their 1-gigawatt Colchis site has a FULLY EXECUTED Direct Connect Agreement with American Electric Power. Not “in the queue.” Not “under study.” EXECUTED. Energization: 2028. While competitors are stuck waiting 7+ years for interconnection approvals, $CIFR already has a Tier 1 grid connection locked in. And they just signed: • $5.5 billion, 15-year lease with AWS for 300 MW • 10-year hosting deal with Google/Fluidstack for 168 MW That’s $8.5 billion in contracted lease payments for AI infrastructure. $IREN - The Microsoft Validation: $IREN didn’t just secure power. They secured the ONLY thing that matters: a hyperscaler willing to pre-pay billions. November 2025: $9.7 billion AI Cloud contract with Microsoft. Let me repeat that. Microsoft PRE-PAID for capacity that doesn’t exist yet. Deal structure: • 200 MW of liquid-cooled AI capacity • $1.94 billion annual recurring revenue (once online) • 20% prepayment to fund $5.8 billion GPU purchase from Dell • Four “Horizon” data centers at their 750 MW Childress campus But the real alpha? Their 2.91 GW portfolio of GRID-CONNECTED power. Not speculative. Not “in the queue.” Connected. Energized. Operating. > Sweetwater 1: 1.4 GW (energization accelerated to April 26) > Childress: 750 MW (operating) > Prince George: 160 MW hydro (23k GPUs for AI) $IREN is scaling to $3.4 billion in AI Cloud ARR by end of 2026 using only 16% of their total power capacity. The Peer Comparison Nobody’s Talking About: Everyone’s excited about $RIOT, $MARA, $CORZ, and $WULF. Here’s the problem: $RIOT: 1.7 GW portfolio, mostly Bitcoin-focused. 25 MW HPC lease with AMD ($311M over 10 years). That’s 1/30th the size of IREN’s Microsoft deal. $MARA: Building “behind-the-meter” natural gas generation to BYPASS the grid entirely. Smart strategy, but they’re starting from scratch. 1.8 GW capacity, mostly mining. $CORZ: $10B+ contract with CoreWeave sounds massive. But they’re CONVERTING old mining infrastructure. Not purpose-built for AI. Currently unprofitable. $WULF: 750 MW at Lake Mariner. Zero-carbon hydro/nuclear. Clean energy story is strong. But only 72.5 MW of HPC capacity by Q2 2025. Meanwhile: • $CIFR has 2.2 GW with executed grid agreements and $8.5B in hyperscaler contracts • $IREN has 2.91 GW of energized capacity and a $9.7B Microsoft deal The Cooling Bottleneck: Secured power means NOTHING without secured cooling. November 2025: CyrusOne data center in Illinois went down for 10 hours because ONE chiller failed. This facility handles TRILLIONS in CME trading volume. Energy, agriculture, crypto derivatives markets frozen globally. Why? Because AI racks now consume 600 kW of power (enough to power 500 homes). A single rack failure creates catastrophic heat buildup. $IREN’s solution: Liquid-cooled infrastructure at all Horizon facilities. $CIFR’s solution: Turnkey air-and-liquid cooling delivery for AWS. Hyperscalers aren’t paying billions for “power connections.” They’re paying for THERMAL RELIABILITY. The Numbers That Matter: > PJM capacity prices: 10x increase from 2024 to 2025 (extreme scarcity signal) > Interconnection costs in Louisiana/Missouri: $900,000+ per MW > $64 billion in U.S. data center projects blocked or delayed in 2024-2025 > 25+ major data center projects canceled in 2025 alone The grid is saturated. The timeline is broken. The infrastructure doesn’t exist. But $CIFR and $IREN? They already own the infrastructure. They already have the grid connections. They already have the hyperscaler contracts. The Bottom Line: > AI demand is doubling every 90 days. > Grid capacity takes 5-7 years to build. > You can’t close that gap with announcements. You close it with EXECUTED agreements and ENERGIZED megawatts. $CIFR: $0.027/kWh power, $8.5B in contracts, 1 GW Tier 1 grid connection $IREN: $9.7B Microsoft deal, 2.91 GW energized portfolio, $3.4B ARR target by 2026. While half the industry fights over interconnection queues, these two are already plugged in. The power crunch isn’t coming. It’s here. And the only winners will be the ones who secured their megawatts BEFORE the grid broke. Bullish $CIFR and $IREN. Note: This is NOT financial advice.

Black Panther Capital

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