Copper Uses: Electrification, AI Data Centers & Investment Demand Copper is the metal the modern world runs current through. It wires your home, carries power across the grid, moves the heat out of an AI server, spins the motor in…
Gold Uses: Industrial, Space, Quantum & Investment Gold is the metal humanity trusts when nothing else will do. It is money that central banks are buying by the thousand-tonne, jewelry worn across every culture, the corrosion-proof contact inside your phone,…
Silver Uses: Industrial, Energy & Investment Demand Silver is the most electrically and thermally conductive metal on Earth, and that single fact explains most of where it ends up. It carries current in a solar panel, switches power in an…
The Future Uses of Lithium Almost everyone knows lithium as one thing: the battery metal. It is the element inside the phone in your pocket and the electric car in the driveway, and roughly 88% of all the lithium mined…
The Future Uses of Platinum For fifty years, the biggest thing platinum did was clean up car exhaust. Roughly two of every five ounces mined went into catalytic converters, and a diesel converter alone can hold six grams of it.…
The Metals a Humanoid Robot Actually Runs On Strip a humanoid robot down to what makes it move and you find the same part repeated more than forty times: a small, powerful electric motor. Tesla’s Optimus carries on the order…
The Future Uses of Gallium Gallium is one of the strangest chokepoints in the modern economy: a soft, silvery metal so low-melting it turns to liquid in a warm hand at 29.8°C, that nobody mines on purpose, and that a…
What’s Inside an AI Server Rack A single Nvidia GB200 NVL72 rack weighs about 1.36 tonnes — 3,000 pounds — and before you open a single chip, its spine already holds more than two miles of copper cabling, according to…
The AI Data Centre That Needed Its Own Power Plant In 1979 the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania suffered a partial meltdown, the worst commercial nuclear accident in American history. The reactor that melted never ran again, public…
The 20-tesla magnets that could make compact fusion work are wound from REBCO — rare-earth barium copper oxide tape. Here's what it is, why a stronger field shrinks a reactor, how much tape a fusion plant needs, and the capital chasing it.