Michael Olaya

Why it matters

Compute is the substrate of the next economy, but power is the real bottleneck. The country that builds the most efficient, abundant, and secure energy base for AI will set the terms of the 21st century — economically, militarily, and culturally. Texas has the energy, the land, the workforce, and the political will to lead. Powering 100GW of AI compute on US soil is a generational defense, industrial, and prosperity project — and the work happens at the power and land layer underneath the chips.

How

• Continue to lead the powered land development team at one of the largest real estate developers in Texas — on track to energize 5GW of land through our existing portfolio.
• Build the technical map and political vision to power 100GW of AI compute in Texas through Land Power Fiber.
• Develop modular data center designs optimized for behind-the-meter generation (gas, enhanced geothermal + storage, eventually nuclear).
• Work with policymakers to streamline permitting, interconnection, and water-light cooling approaches.
• Develop natural gas fuel cell systems and enhanced geothermal through Promethean Industries to remove the final generation bottleneck.

Why it matters

Most cities are downstream of legacy infrastructure decisions made a century ago. Designing a city from scratch — with its own generation, water, food, and connectivity — is a chance to prove that high quality of life and resilience are not mutually exclusive. A working off grid city of 100,000 is a proof point that decentralized civilization is viable, and a template others can fork.

How

• Build an AI-first construction operating system that streamlines construction for a world where AI and humanoid + autonomous robots are central to the process — incubated under Promethean Industries.
• Start with a master plan around energy, water, food, and housing as a single coupled system.
• Pilot at the neighborhood scale (1,000 residents) with aquaponics, on-site generation, and modular housing.
• Standardize the building blocks — power pods, water loops, hexayurt-derived housing — so each phase compounds.

Why it matters

The frontier of governance has moved offshore. New jurisdictions are how civilization runs experiments — in law, economics, and technology — without forcing a billion people to opt in. A million-citizen offshore city state can prove a higher-trust, higher-throughput model of governance and become a peer to existing nation states.

How

This is a continuation of the off grid city — same building blocks, scaled up and moved offshore into its own jurisdiction.

• Engineer the platform: modular floating / fixed offshore structures that scale from a single platform to a metropolitan cluster.
• Negotiate a host-nation agreement that grants real legal autonomy, then bootstrap citizenship and residency programs.
• Anchor the economy with AI compute, finance, biotech, and advanced manufacturing — industries that benefit from clear rules and global access.
• Stage construction in phases: research outpost → 10k settlement → 100k city → 1M city state.