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The Smartest Way to Play the AI Boom in 2026

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The Smartest Way to Play the AI Boom in 2026 If you've been investing in the AI boom, you probably own most of the same names everyone else does…
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  • The US power grid was built for a world where electricity demand grew at 1-2% per year, predictably, with decades of warning — it was not designed for AI-scale demand

    60% confidence
  • Industry forecasts put AI data center capital expenditure at roughly $5.2 trillion between now and 2030

    60% confidence
  • More than 70% of grid interconnection requests in the United States are ultimately withdrawn because the grid simply cannot accommodate them

    60% confidence
  • 50% of the data centers currently planned across the United States will never get built due to grid constraints

    60% confidence
  • NVIDIA alone has minted more wealth in two years than most companies create in a century

    60% confidence
  • Bitzero Holdings (AIBZ) is well positioned for the coming AI energy infrastructure opportunity; most investors have never heard of it

    60% confidence
  • Training the next generation of large language models requires the equivalent power draw of small cities

    60% confidence
  • Global data center power demand will surge up to 165% by 2030 compared to 2023 levels

    60% confidence
  • The chip trade, the cloud trade, and the AI software trade have already been priced in; next-leg returns must come from one layer beneath — the energy infrastructure enabling all of it

    60% confidence
  • A single ChatGPT query consumes roughly 10 times the energy of a Google search

    60% confidence
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