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From oil wells to data power

For decades, power in the global energy market was defined by oil reserves, production capacity, pipelines, shipping routes and geopolitical geography. States that controlled strategic chokepoints, export corridors and vast hydrocarbon resources were considered the central actors of the international energy order. Yet recent developments suggest that the world is gradually entering a new phase in which data, algorithms and artificial intelligence are becoming part of the infrastructure of energy power itself.