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The build-out is priced at five to eight trillion dollars this decade. The constraint is not the size of the pool — but how much can be committed to any one claim, in any one year, without repricing the cost of capital for everyone else.

Record hyperscaler bond issuance and widening credit spreads confirm what Monard has argued since Issue V: the AI buildout is now a balance sheet story, and capital is starting to price it that way.

The industrial gas that missed the energy transition is now essential to heavy industries. Three years on from peak hype, the data finally tells us where hydrogen wins — and where electrons have already won.

European power costs are nearly triple those of the United States. Why offshoring compute cannot fix it, why France is hitting a capacity ceiling, and why Behind-the-Meter generation is the only immediate answer.

Why quantum computing will not replace the AI stack — and what neuromorphic and photonic challengers are already queued up behind it.

Why cost, not carbon, is now driving the energy transition — and what COP31's '35 by 35' electrification target means for infrastructure capital.

Why a hyperscaler admitting spare capacity does not mean the compute shortage is over — and why power and water remain the layer that decides who wins the next decade of AI infrastructure.

Why the largest balance sheets in history cannot fund the compute the world is building — and where the capital must come from instead. Even the strongest balance sheets are thinner than they look.

The fuel that was meant to power everything has quietly retreated to the few places it was always best suited. The reason is not ideology. It is arithmetic — and AI has just made the arithmetic worse.

The obvious fear is mass displacement. But what if employment holds steady and AI simply makes every worker vastly more productive? Our committee models the macroeconomic consequences of a full-employment, high-productivity future.

Just 0.1% of the world uses AI meaningfully today — and the grid is already straining. The AI race isn't a software war. It's a physics problem of power, water and wafers.

For nearly three decades, globalisation delivered what textbooks said was impossible. Understanding why that era is ending — and who is paying the price — is the most important economic question of our time.

The history of bank capital regulation carries a clear and consistent message about credit risk. Here is how those lessons shaped the principles on which Monard Infrastructure was built.

History proves that fuel shocks change behaviour. This time, a collapsing EV cost curve means the shift will be permanent — an investment perspective by Daniel Blizzard, Founder & Managing Partner.

A structural shift is underway in how large industrial energy consumers source their power. The movement toward on-site, behind-the-meter generation is accelerating — driven not by sustainability commitments, but by grid constraints that have become commercially unworkable.