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The Power Curve 2026 Outlook
The 2026 Outlook maps the forces reshaping economic power, technological capability, and geopolitical advantage in the year ahead.
- Capital expenditure is becoming strategic terrain.
- Compute and energy are now core constraints on power.
- Institutional execution increasingly separates ambition from capability.
- Cities, infrastructure, and supply chains are becoming arenas of competition.
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