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Precious metals have started 2026 with explosive momentum. Gold, platinum, and silver are all surging — but stretched valuations and increasingly parabolic price action raise important questions about what comes next.

At the same time, a different pressure is quietly building in the US economy: electricity. Rising power costs, driven in part by the rapid expansion of AI data centers, are becoming a political issue — with potential consequences for how the AI trade evolves from here.

In this episode, Jason McDonald explains why power grid infrastructure may offer a cleaner and more durable way to express the AI theme than chips or data centers themselves.