The AI Gold Rush’s Hidden Bottleneck: How Data Centers Are Redefining Global Critical Mineral Markets
Executive Overview The exponential expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) has triggered an unprecedented infrastructural buildout, shifting global attention away from pure software algorithms and toward the physical foundations powering the next technological revolution. Beneath the sleek facades of hyperscale data centers, server racks, and liquid-cooling networks lies a heavy reliance on foundational critical minerals. Copper,…
