Exponential, Distilled

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Natural Gas

Up +46 % YoY as AI demand explodes...

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Exponential, Distilled
Oct 30, 2025
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AI isn’t just constrained by chips—it’s constrained by power.

Gas now fuels 40% of data-center demand, turning a once-cyclical commodity into AI’s core bottleneck.

Up +45% YoY, natural gas offers a high-reward, low-risk way to play the AI boom.

Natural gas is helping power the use of artificial intelligence — Chevron

Source: Chevron

Key Report Insights:

  1. Gas Rerates: +46.7% YoY—AI power demand overrides seasonality

  2. Export Squeeze: U.S. LNG capacity to double by 2029

  3. AI Grid Shock: Data centers source 40% of electricity from gas

  4. Industrial Confirmation: $7.8B turbine orders (+50% YoY) lock in demand

  5. Regional Flywheel: Appalachia’s gas meets Virginia’s data clusters

We recently added natural gas to our portfolio—now +40% vs BTC since July.

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