Data Center Investments Shift To Emerging Markets Amidst Regulatory Scrutiny and Energy Needs
March 3rd, 2024
Via Frontier Market News, a look at how data center investment is shifting to emerging markets amid regulatory scrutiny and rising energy needs: The boom in artificial intelligence use and investment is creating a surge of demand for data centers, the massive facilities which house and transmit the vast amounts of data needed to train […]
Read more »American Investors’ Multi-Billion-Dollar Green Hydrogen and Ammonia Plant in Chile Seeks Approval
March 3rd, 2024
Via Hydrogen Insight, a report on a planned multi-billion-dollar green hydrogen and ammonia plant in Chile, which aims to draw on high solar power potential in the Atacama Desert to power cheap renewable NH3 production at the port city of Mejillones: A $2.5bn green hydrogen and ammonia project in northern Chile that will utilise solar […]
Read more »Catching Rays: Latin America Purchasing Billons of Dollars of Chinese Solar Panels
January 2nd, 2024
Courtesy of Latinometrics, a look at Latin American’s significant investment in Chinese solar panels: In the last six years, Latin America has imported $26B — or almost twice the GDP of Nicaragua — worth of solar panels from China, the world’s leader in producing and selling them.
Read more »Japan’s Strategic Investment Offensive
December 13th, 2023
Via Geopolitical Futures, a look at how – unlike Beijing – Tokyo is targeting specific regions in Central Asia and Latin America, as well as, sectors to enhance its influence: As Japan grows more ambitious as a regional leader, it has enhanced its diplomatic outreach accordingly. In late November, for example, reports emerged that Tokyo […]
Read more »Full Metal Jackpot: Demand for “Green” Metals will Redraw the Global Mining Map
November 28th, 2023
Courtesy of The Economist, a look at how he energy transition will mint new fortunes in surprising places: A net-zero global economy, if it materialises, will not just be carbon-neutral. It will also consume far fewer raw materials. Going from here to there, however, will require a heap of them. In the next few decades, […]
Read more »Is Chile Adrift on Green Hydrogen?
October 29th, 2023
Via The Americas Quarterly, a look at Chile’s green hydrogen potential: Green hydrogen is flaunting its potential across Chile, nudging out pipeline gas in Coquimbo, fueling forklifts at a Walmart distribution hub in Santiago, and synthesizing with CO2 to make carbon-neutral gasoline in Magallanes. Next year, it will power a train in Antofagasta and cool a power […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.