Alex Irwin-Hunt
Global Markets Editor at fDi Magazine
Global Markets Editor for @fDiIntelligence at @FT. Tweets about #FDI/#econdev/#startups/#venturecapital. DMs open. Email: [email protected].
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fdiintelligence.com | Alex Irwin-Hunt
Donald Trump’s 'America First Trade Policy' has raised serious concerns about the status quo in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) sector. Household CPG brands — from instant noodles to ketchup and popcorn — used to rely on complex global manufacturing networks, including across the US borders with Canada and Mexico.
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fdiintelligence.com | Alex Irwin-Hunt
In late January, a legislative meeting in the US state of Wyoming cut to the core of energy debates. One bill in discussion, entitled ‘Make carbon dioxide great again — no net zero’, demonstrates general hostility to the energy transition in a predominantly Republican state that has produced coal, oil and gas for generations.
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fdiintelligence.com | Alex Irwin-Hunt
Terrapower is at the centre of a new age for nuclear technology. Efforts to reboot the US’s ageing nuclear fleet were given a boost in June 2024 when Terrapower broke ground in Wyoming on its Natrium project. The start-up founded in 2008 by Microsoft’s Bill Gates aims to build a new 345 megawatt sodium-cooled nuclear reactor by 2030 at a coal power plant set to be decommissioned in Kemmerer in the south-west of the state.
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fdiintelligence.com | Alex Irwin-Hunt
The EU has proposed a sweeping package of measures to support and protect cleantech and energy-intensive sectors from global competition and regulations that have forced investments away from the bloc. The Clean Industrial Deal, released on February 26, aims to shore up the competitiveness of energy-intensive industries, which has been heavily compromised by the energy crisis triggered by the Ukraine war, as well as support the development of European clean technologies.
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fdiintelligence.com | Alex Irwin-Hunt
Middle Eastern businesses are taking an impartial stance in US-China technology competition, with regional investors and founders hailing the benefits of innovating using artificial intelligence and other technologies developed in both countries. Discussion about which tech superpower to align with come in response to Chinese innovation from the likes of Alibaba and start-up DeepSeek.
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Europe is having its own #Stargate moment. France's €109bn #AI pledge underlines #Europe playing catch up with the largesse of US investment commitments: https://t.co/okrWQNLGcR
Nous avons les talents et les atouts pour réussir dans l'intelligence artificielle. Bonne nouvelle : les entreprises françaises et étrangères annoncent 109 milliards d’euros d’investissements en France dans l’IA. C’est historique.
The cost of doing business globally has reached a 10-year peak due to 'deglobalisation', 'friendshoring' and the concurrent rise in global trade restrictions, according to @MaplecroftRisk. Could this trend continue under Trump 2.0? #fdi #econdev #trade https://t.co/1XseJfUsq3
Data centre investment is increasingly being directed outside traditional markets, as soaring demand leads developers to build capacity in alternative locations with access to plentiful affordable electricity: https://t.co/qiONosu0Ke #datacenter #datacentre #fdi #ai https://t.co/uj8kydLBeY