Articles, insights, and commentary on energy, infrastructure, and building in Latin America and beyond.
Paraguay is seeking AI funding, attracting high-value industries, and renegotiating the Itaipú Treaty — all at once. I zoom in on the energy and AI angle, arguing we should consume our surplus energy locally instead of ceding it to Brazil at a fraction of its worth.
El Prisma's full profile in their "Personas que inspiran" series — tracing the complete arc from selling ice in Villarrica at age 7, through Go! Internet and the 100MW Penguin data center, to VP of Technology at STAK Energy in Alaska. Christian is the sole subject, quoted throughout.
By El Prisma · In Spanish · April 14, 2026
Leer en El Prisma →Rest of World's in-depth feature on how Itaipú became a flashpoint for crypto mining — opening with my story of going from 12-hour ISP days during Covid to mining fever in Villarrica. Covers the Itaipú Treaty, Brazil's hold on Paraguay's surplus energy, and the push to consume it locally.
By Laurence Blair · Available in English and Spanish
Read full article on Rest of World →President Santiago Peña visited Penguin Group's data center in Hernandarias — the facility I designed, built, and operated. I'm the one presenting throughout the video, walking the President through the operation on camera. Peña highlighted Paraguay's potential as a tech hub: "Estamos trabajando para que sea una realidad."
Posted by President Santiago Peña · In Spanish · #GobiernoDelParaguay
Watch on Facebook →OCEAN — the Jack Dorsey-backed, non-custodial Bitcoin mining pool — featured me for DATUM's first anniversary. I brought Penguin onto OCEAN as one of the first major mining companies to join. They grew significantly after that.
Penguin Group's official corporate documentary showing the full scope of what we built in Hernandarias — from our own electrical substation to the data center construction, the Penguin Academy coding bootcamps, and the team behind it all. This is the facility I designed and operated as Chief of Data Center Officer. · In English with subtitles
Watch on YouTube →Second appearance on Unicanal's "La Caja Negra" — this time as Penguin Group's Chief of Data Center Operations, making the case for why legal, regulated mining creates jobs, builds infrastructure, and generates value from Paraguay's surplus energy. · In Spanish
Watch on YouTube → Read Penguin's writeup →My first national TV appearance on crypto mining — on La Caja Negra, still as Manager and Co-owner of Go! Internet. This was the period when press, national and international, started calling. The topic: crypto mining as a booming, unregulated business in Paraguay, and why state intervention was needed to kickstart proper regulation. · April 12, 2022 · In Spanish
Watch on Facebook →IP Paraguay's coverage of the crypto mining boom in Villarrica, featuring my story as the opening — from 12-hour ISP days to mining fever. Covers CLYFSA's cheap energy, the Itaipú Treaty, and the push for a miners' guild. · In Spanish
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Rotaract Club Villarrica was founded in 2001–2002 by a group of young people who wanted to bring Rotary's community service model to the city. I was one of the founding members, and after proving my commitment was elected as the club's first President. It was my earliest experience helping build an organization from scratch — chartering the club, recruiting members, securing the formal sponsorship of Rotary International, and representing Villarrica at the XXV Encuentro Rotaractiano Argentino-Uruguayo-Paraguayo in 2003, a multinational district-level gathering across three countries. The club is still active today, more than two decades later.
The first time I helped build something from nothing and left it standing. Everything that came after — Go! Internet, Teletón, AGP, Penguin, STAK — follows this same impulse. · Villarrica, Paraguay · 2001–2002
Before I got involved, Teletón's presence in Villarrica was volunteers standing on street corners with branded piggy banks. Between 2011 and 2016, I helped build the Guairá chapter into a full operation — organizing annual closure festivals that drew thousands of people to the city plaza, with live music, local artists, national TV coverage, and corporate sponsors like Itaú and NSA. We ran fundraiser festivals, door-to-door collection drives, awareness campaigns, and home makeover projects for families with physically challenged members. The goal each year: 100,000,000 guaraníes.
This wasn't a corporate initiative — it was personal. No company branding, no sponsorship angle. Just the same impulse that runs through everything: see something that could be bigger, organize the people, build the structure, and make it real. Alongside Andrés Silva Chávez and a core team of volunteers, we turned a handful of collection points into a city-wide event that became part of Villarrica's annual identity. · Villarrica, Paraguay · 2011–2016
Closure night on Fundación Teletón's Facebook → Volunteer home makeover project →
As President of the Asociación Guaireña de Padel (AGP), I brought national-level padel tournaments back to Villarrica — organizing events, securing sponsors, structuring the whole federation, and getting the city competing at the national stage. After I stepped down, the organization held together and continues to be an important part of Paraguay's national padel federation to this day.
Same pattern, different arena: take something that doesn't exist yet, build the structure, get the community behind it, and leave it stronger than you found it. · Villarrica, Paraguay · Go! Internet era
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