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A 49.5-megawatt data center is under construction on April 14, 2026, in Vernon, California. (Getty Images)
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EU flags fly in front of the Berlaymont, the EU Commission headquarter, on February 17, 2025, in Brussels, Belgium. (Getty Images)
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A combine harvester gathers crops in Farbovane, Ukraine, near Kyiv on July 9, 2026. (Getty Images)
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the COP30 on November 6, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. (Getty Images)
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Crystals of gallium are seen in a laboratory at the TU Bergakademie in Freiberg, Germany, on September 13, 2023. (Hendrik Schmidt via Getty Images)
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A terrikon, a towering mound of mining waste, rises near a coal mine on February 22, 2025, in Donetsk Region, Ukraine. (Pierre Crom via Getty Images)
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Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
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A section of the Yarlung Tsangpo River on May 13, 2023. (Photo by Li Lin/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)
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Rows of new energy vehicles seen in Chongqing, China, on June 16, 2024. (Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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The water level of the Yangtze River and Jialing River in Chongqing, China, on August 17, 2022. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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The ship Pavilion Aranda in Sabine Pass near the US Gulf Coast on June 21, 2023. (Julia Naue via Getty Images)
Experts
Brigham A. McCown
Senior Fellow and Director, Initiative on American Energy Security
