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The Data Center Land Grab

The Data Center Land Grab

Two years ago, the choke point in AI infrastructure was silicon: a company's ambitions were capped by how many GPUs it could get its hands on. That co...

DECODING GEN Z PURCHASE DECISIONS

DECODING GEN Z PURCHASE DECISIONS

Gen Z gets summarised in a single, tired sentence: broke, brand-disloyal, and buying everything because a TikTok told them to.

Energy Subsidy Reform

Energy Subsidy Reform

Fossil fuel subsidy reform has moved from a recurring communiqué line to an active fiscal strategy in several capitals — and stalled almost entirely i...

THE ETHICS OF COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE

THE ETHICS OF COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE

Competitive intelligence has quietly become one of the most contested disciplines in corporate strategy. Every serious organisation now tracks rivals'...

How Strategies and Revenue Estimation for Private Companies Is Done

How Strategies and Revenue Estimation for Private Companies Is Done

Public companies are legally required to disclose revenue every quarter. Private companies are not, and the vast majority of the economy is private.

Battery Storage Economics: When Does Storage Beat Peaker Plants?

Battery Storage Economics: When Does Storage Beat Peaker Plants?

For decades, the answer to "how do we cover the demand spike on a hot afternoon" was to build a gas peaker: a simple-cycle turbine that sits idle most...

Why 'Garbage In, Garbage Out' Still Applies in the Age of AI Research

Why 'Garbage In, Garbage Out' Still Applies in the Age of AI Research

Garbage in, garbage out is a maxim from 1950s computing, coined before anyone imagined a model that could write fluent, confident, footnoted prose fro...

Grid Bottlenecks: Why Renewable Projects Are Stuck Waiting to Connect

Grid Bottlenecks: Why Renewable Projects Are Stuck Waiting to Connect

Renewable developers are building generation faster than power grids can absorb it. Across the world's largest clean-energy markets, thousands of giga...

Why Most Market Sizing Estimates Are Wrong by 20% or More

Why Most Market Sizing Estimates Are Wrong by 20% or More

Every pitch deck and strategy memo eventually leans on a market size number, and almost nobody stress-tests where it came from.

Product-Market Fit Research: Signals You're Ready to Scale

Product-Market Fit Research: Signals You're Ready to Scale

Most founders treat product-market fit as a milestone to declare rather than a metric to track continuously, and that mistake is expensive.

Biomass and Waste-to-Energy: A Realistic Look at Scalability

Biomass and Waste-to-Energy: A Realistic Look at Scalability

Global bioenergy installed capacity reached 151 gigawatts in 2024, according to the World Bioenergy Association's twelfth annual Global Bioenergy Stat...

Demand Response Programs: How Utilities Are Managing Peak Load Without New Plants

Demand Response Programs: How Utilities Are Managing Peak Load Without New Plants

Wood Mackenzie now expects U.S. gas turbine prices to reach $600 per kilowatt by the end of 2027, a 195% increase since 2019, as global orders of 110...