i know there’s a lot of doomsday talk right now. but ai’s impact on productivity is about to send the next economic expansion into overdrive. meet mr copper. the silent winner of the ai boom. microsoft’s chicago data center alone needed 2,177 metric tons of copper, roughly 27 tonnes per megawatt. now multiply that across every hyperscaler building worldwide. this isn’t a slowdown story. it’s a supercycle in the making.