{"id":993808,"date":"2026-02-19T09:58:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T04:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=993808"},"modified":"2026-02-19T11:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:32:09","slug":"from-ai-to-evs-the-4-engines-driving-a-50-surge-in-global-copper-demand-by-2040","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/19\/from-ai-to-evs-the-4-engines-driving-a-50-surge-in-global-copper-demand-by-2040\/","title":{"rendered":"From AI to EVs: The 4 engines driving a 50% surge in global copper demand by 2040"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Copper demand is set to jump to 42 million metric tonne by 2040  from 28 million metric tonne in 2025, a 50% rise that could strain global supplies. That is the central finding of S&amp;P Global\u2019s January 2026 report, \u201cCopper in the Age of AI: Challenges of Electrification.\u201d The research house estimates that without significant supply expansion, the world could face a 10 million metric tonne shortfall by 2040.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copper demand is set to jump to 42 million metric tonne by 2040 from 28 million metric tonne in 2025, a 50% rise that could strain global supplies. That is the central finding of S&amp;P Global\u2019s January 2026 report, \u201cCopper in the Age of AI: Challenges of Electrification.\u201d The research house estimates that without significant supply expansion, the world could face a 10 million metric tonne shortfall by 2040.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}