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• How to invest in the AI energy boom

  04-07-2026 10:00 via moneyweek.com
  
  Some analysts have proclaimed that AI is more important and will be more transformative for human development than the creation of the railways. With the world's largest technology companies now spending more than $1 trillion a year expanding their presence in the market, there's no doubt this theme will dominate for the foreseeable future. However, as investors focus on the so-called hyperscalers – Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon – which are building their AI infrastructure at an ala
  
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• Why Britain needs air conditioning now

  04-07-2026 09:00 via moneyweek.com
  
  Why is air conditioning becoming a necessity?Until recently, the UK scarcely needed to consider air conditioning; now it is a pressing economic and political issue. A sweaty, sleep-deprived country is wondering what has happened to the traditionally underwhelming British summer – the “three fine days and a thunderstorm” of blessed memory. For centuries, summer's lease hath, famously, had “all too short a date”. This year, though, it's an all too long one – kic
  
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