Trump's Greenland Play: National Security... or the Ultimate AI Power Grab?

I believe President Trump’s interest in Greenland is primarily due to the potential for massive future revenues from some of the world’s largest untapped deposits of rare earth elements (REEs)—including neodymium, dysprosium, yttrium, and other heavy REEs like terbium.
Packaging this instead as national security and strategic positioning in the Arctic—with an emphasis on countering Russian and Chinese influence in the region—is brilliant.
An additional dimension is that AI data centers are energy guzzlers—projections from Goldman Sachs Research (e.g., https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/ai-to-drive-165-increase-in-data-center-power-demand-by-2030) show they could drive a 165% increase in electricity demand by 2030, with cooling alone consuming 30–40% of the energy in traditional installations.
Greenland’s Arctic climate offers “free cooling” via natural cold air, which lowers costs and allows for massive, efficient buildings without energy-intensive HVAC.

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Same same but different

For transparency and my own agenda, I strongly dislike our previous government, the Social Democrats with the support of the Green Party and the tacit acceptance of the Left Party. Politically, I stand very far from the Swedish Social Democrats and their partner parties, communism, socialism and the environmental movement.

I couldn't care less about what people look like or where they come from. The only thing that matters in my world is how they behave and what values ​​they have. If I generalize, all types of people are the same regardless of background. However, there are different types of people.

For example, I have never been able to understand those, mainly mothers, who are generally most often found in countries that practice Islam, who are willing to sacrifice both the lives and well-being of their children for a cause. A behavior that has also begun to be discerned among mothers on the left lately.

On several occasions, it has been reported that mothers have brought small children to organized actions in Minnesota where they attack ICE agents in various ways. It's almost as if they want, just like their peers in Islam, that their children be harmed so that their voice and cause will be heard even more. Why else would one bring small children to events where forcibly impeding federal officers like ICE agents is a crime under 18 U.S.C. § 111?!

Personally, I would never in any way expose the world's most perfect teenager to the slightest risk, quite the opposite. My job here on earth is to protect him at all costs. Something that he sometimes, perhaps mostly, finds annoying...😉

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The bookworm vs the troublemaker, who will be the winner in the future?

My prediction below about AI requires a rough generalization of two different personalities, bookworms and troublemakers.

One area that all bookworms have always been able to rely on to excel in is education and later careers. Their incredible dedication and sacrifice of parties, alcohol, and love for the sake of their studies has always paid off.

I predict that future bookworms' time in the limelight may be over. New technological gadgets like glasses with built-in AI that translate, calculate, give real-time answers, etc. on school tests and job interviews will give all the troublemakers everything the bookworms have worked for for free. To top it all off, troublemakers often have significantly better social skills, which will outcompete any bookworm.

The more we learn to use AI, the more our lives will change, for better or worse.

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New year, new beginnings

Over the past 6 months, we have reduced our risk taking and started buying more "safe" stocks with lower dividends. We have also decided to take a small portion of the money we invest and exclude dividend companies in favor of a couple of growth companies. We are well aware that you should not deviate from your plan, but we have come so far in our investment plan that we are prepared to make this small change.

Today we made our first investment in a growth company, we purchased a small number of shares in Ondas Holdings Inc (ONDS). ONDS is our first holding that does not pay dividends.

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Tax money NOT a work

For transparency and my own agenda, I strongly dislike our previous government, the Social Democrats with the support of the Green Party and the tacit acceptance of the Left Party. Politically, I am very far from the Swedish Social Democrats, their partner parties, communism and socialism.

Our tenant-owners' association (HOA or as it's named in Sweden BRF) has an agreement with Stockholm Vatten och Avfall, which is the municipal company responsible for drinking water, sewage and waste management in the city of Stockholm. Stockholm Vatten och Avfall has outsourced waste management to Verdis AB, which is responsible for the part of the area in Stockholm's inner city where we live.

The Stockholm Transport Office is one of the City of Stockholm's trade unions and is governed by politicians on the traffic committee, which consists of the Social Democrats and the Green Party. The Stockholm City Traffic Office is responsible for, among other things, snow removal on local streets, sidewalks and cycle paths.

In Stockholm, you don't pay directly for the general snow removal of streets, sidewalks and cycle paths, as well as waste management – ​​it is financed through taxes, where the municipality hires contractors such as Verdis AB and the Stockholm Transport Office, who then invoice the city.

Today I received a call from the private contracting company Verdis AB because they were unable to collect BRF's waste due to lack of snow removal. The result of this is that I, as a private individual, must perform a service, snow removal, which both I and the BRF pay municipal tax to have performed in order to have our waste removed.

I can only guess how Verdis AB got my mobile number because I have never been in contact with the company. But since Sweden is a far too open society with all our information, I'm just a Googling away.

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