The New Oil Isn’t Oil: What Tech Won’t Say Out Loud | Max Fuega™
BY : @MaxFuega | SUBSCRIBE 📖 Estimated Reading Time: 9–10 minutes Category: Tech, Power & Society It Starts With a Flicker You probably didn’t notice it. The faint blink of your smart TV when the lights dimmed for a second. The hum of the fridge straining as a summer brownout moved through your city. Somewhere in that flicker is a story. Not about faulty wires or bad weather, but about power itself. The truth is simple. The new oil isn’t oil. It’s electricity. And right now, the richest corporations on Earth are securing more of it than anyone else. Who Really Owns the Light Switch Every few decades, humanity moves into a new kind of gold rush. We once mined the ground. Then we mined data. Now the focus has shifted to voltage. The AI boom is often framed as a competition for intelligence, valuations, and technical breakthroughs. Beneath that surface, though, another race is underway. The most powerful companies in the world are not only ...