"Copper demand is driven by urbanization.
Yes, there is some, I would say, slowing down in China, but then India is picking up significantly and, on the other hand, what we see is the electrification of vehicles has developed maybe less strong than the automotive industry thought, but it's still the way to go.
All of a sudden, you have this huge AI boom. It's not only the AI data centers. If you look into the forecast, people start thinking about, okay, how much cable is in a data center? It's not about that. A data center in today's world is not calculated in teraflops, in floating operations per second. It's calculated in gigawatts in electricity use.
Somebody has to bring the cable with all that electricity, and that electricity needs to be generated, whether it's nuclear, whether it's hydro, whether it's wind, whether it's solar.
Everything needs copper and needs significant amount of copper. I think that over the next decades, we'll continue to see a shortage of copper."
— Michael Meding Managing Director, McEwen Copper $MUX