Diversified Trust shares our knowledge on wealth strategies, investing, current financial news and trends.
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Renewables

The year 2025 marked the first time that renewable energy passed coal as the largest source of global electricity generation. Clean energy sources accounted for 100% of new electricity demand during the year with solar representing 75% of that growth. Usage of coal...
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Electric Shock

Everyone is familiar with the impact of the recent bout of inflation on the prices of eggs, gasoline, insurance, automobiles, and housing.  Well, here is a chart that illustrates the rapid increase in the price of something that probably is not top of...
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An Electrifying Topic!

One of the hottest issues in business and public policy today is the need for additional electricity generation to fuel broad economic growth as well as the explosive increase in the number of data centers.  Well, take a look at electricity generation in...
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U.S. Electricity Generation

My January 2025 white paper on Generative AI focused on the tremendous amount of electricity that will be necessary to power the data centers that serve as the backbone of this powerful technology.  There are currently over 11,800 centers globally of which more...