Economy

The physical footprint of the AI race – Scotland’s data-centre dilemma

Technology Elise Quevedo - October 18, 2026.

As hyperscale data centres appear on planning maps beside villages, farmland and residential areas, who decides what technological progress looks like, and who pays the...

Japan should raise interest rates more aggressively

Economy Koichi Hamada - October 17, 2026.

On a recent visit to Sapporo, the city on Japan’s northern island where my parents came from, my wife and I found gentle people, mild...

Does the euro have a chance to become genuinely global?

Finances Piroska Nagy Mohácsi - October 16, 2026.

As the global monetary order becomes increasingly fragmented, the European Union has a rare opportunity to shape the emerging system and bolster the euro’s international...

Who decides what constitutes dangerous artificial intelligence: the state or Nvidia?

Technology TA Analysis - October 16, 2026.

Jensen Huang, the founder and chief executive of Nvidia, the world’s leading artificial-intelligence chipmaker, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television on 14 October that...

Who inherits the private conversations users have had with chatbots?

Technology TA Analysis - October 15, 2026.

Forty US attorneys general joined the bankruptcy proceedings of Character.AI, a company that stores conversations between millions of people and virtual interlocutors. According to their filing,...

Public investment strenghtens productivity

Economy Mariana Mazzucato - October 14, 2026.

Whether a hospital can hire nurses, a school can repair its roof, or a country can build a clean-energy grid often depends on factors that...

Europe should not look to US and China while solving its productivity crisis

Economy Dani Rodrik - October 12, 2026.

Europe faces a productivity crisis. Over the past quarter-century, its labor productivity has risen only half as rapidly as that of the United States, widening...

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