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Topic: energy

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Economy
Thursday, 7/23, 04:16 PM

Why AI's power appetite is becoming an electricity problem

  • AI companies now describe their build-outs in gigawatts, units of electrical power, not in numbers of chips.
  • That shift in language is the story: the constraint on artificial intelligence is increasingly the electricity to run it.
  • US power demand hit a record 4.2 trillion kilowatt-hours in 2025, and computing is a growing reason why.
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The 'Amazon of Oil': How Trading Houses Keep Crude Moving Around the World

  • When conflict flares in the Gulf, the oil price jumps but rarely spirals, and a big reason is a low-profile system run by a handful of private trading houses.
  • They move crude across the planet by tanker, pipeline and storage tank, profiting not from betting on price but from the logistics of getting the right barrel to the right place.

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