Australia Energy Minister Chris Bowen will visit Saudi Arabia next week to meet the Saudi energy minister as escalation in the Middle East raises concerns about potential global supply disruptions. Official data show Australia imported 84% of its oil product demand last year; since February, when conflict involving the US, Israel and Iran escalated, Canberra says it has moved quickly to secure supplies. Bowen said Australia currently holds 41 days of gasoline stocks and that Saudi measures will

China Telecom Research Institute’s AI Infrastructure Development Research Report (2026) forecasts China’s token consumption will reach 1×10^17 tokens in 2026 and exceed 3.5×10^19 tokens by 2030; 2026–2030 cumulative growth is forecast at 350-fold, implying a CAGR of about 333% (≈4.3x/year). The report says the shift from a model-and-compute race to large-scale agent deployment and monetization will drive sustained, rapid compute demand growth, with China’s aggregate compute demand expected to increase nearly tenfold per year on average over the next 2–3 years. It also predicts inference compute will far outstrip training demand, with inference accounting for roughly 80% of China’s compute market by 2029.

韩国气候能源环境部部长宣布，韩国计划将新建输电铁塔数量最多减少40%，并增加电力线路地下铺设，以扩大电网建设，应对数据中心和半导体工厂不断增长的电力需求。