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AI tools like the now familiar ChatGPT, among other data growth and management programs, require data centers, many and large. The infrastructure systems required by these new centers, being constructed rapidly across the country, include cooling, connectivity and other needs peculiar to data hardware, implying massive needs for copper. Each new data center can take 1-3,000 tons of copper for construction.

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