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The Grid’s New Masters: How Tech’s Power Hunger Sparks a $1 Trillion Infrastructure Gamble

Introduction A quiet revolution is reshaping the American landscape, not in Silicon Valley boardrooms, but in the humming corridors of power grids. As artificial intelligence and cloud computing explode, their voracious appetite for electricity is colliding with an aging national infrastructure. Now, an unprecedented alliance of federal and state leaders is pushing a radical market…

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China’s Trade Surplus Tops $1 Trillion After Exports Rebound

China’s Record Trade Surplus China’s trade surplus exceeded $1 trillion for the first time despite a deepening plunge in shipments to the US. This risks a significant backlash from markets flooded by goods from the world’s biggest manufacturing nation. Image: fish shoto / UnsplashSource: Bloomberg Key Implications The massive surplus highlights a major economic divergence,…

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