Copper miners stand to gain as the massive AI infrastructure buildout drives copper demand sharply higher through 2027, continuously pushing prices up; now is an excellent buying opportunity. LME copper topped $14,000/ton and COMEX $6.65/lb on rebounding Chinese demand, tight Middle East sulfur supply and AI data-center power needs. A 350,000-ton global shortfall is projected for 2026, and miners offer 2-3x leverage to copper price moves. x.com 

Copper miners stand to benefit from a massive undersupply of copper right now, making the copper miners ETF a candidate for selling puts. x.com 

Copper miners should catch up to copper once oil comes down and logistics chains reopen. Supply pressure plus AI demand have created a perfect storm that pushed copper to new all-time highs. The pattern target is 115, with 92 as the breakout line. x.com 

An early AI buildout, healthcare data, tokenized finance and copper's clearest supply-demand imbalance favor a 15-stock growth basket now. Marvell, Applied Optoelectronics, Nebius, Eli Lilly, Tempus, Ouster, Regal Rexnord, Bloom Energy, Fluence, SpaceX, Brazil's EWZ ETF, Nu Holdings, Coinbase, Securitize and the COPX copper-miners ETF are the picks. Keep Fluence smaller; SpaceX stays bullish long term despite rejecting $500B-$1T ARR in 2027. x.com 

Copper prices will have to rise as demand is expected to grow significantly over the coming decade and global supply is expected to be 70% short by 2040. Per Chamath, copper is set to go absolutely parabolic as the most useful, cheap conductive material, used in data centers, chips and weapons. It is also a great macro hedge right now and a favorite long-term safe-haven pick, with ETFs preferred and COPX the current favorite. A reply warns full LME warehouses could bring a correction. x.com  … Show more

Copper miners have a long-term supply case because major copper discoveries have dried up. The world will face a very large copper imbalance as the years pass. x.com 

Copper will follow the AI trade lower, making it a good catch-up short. x.com 

Copper is one of the clearest trades over the next three years because supply is worse than most realize while AI accelerates demand. Chile, about a quarter of global production, just hit a nine-year production low, and copper miners have held up far better than silver and gold. Deutsche Bank forecasts copper soaring 50% to $22,050 a ton. x.com 

Freeport-McMoRan and Southern Copper own the real AI bottleneck, copper, a link almost no one is pricing yet. AI data centers are wrapped in copper wire, EVs need 2-3x the copper of gas cars, and every grid upgrade needs it; per S&P Global, demand nearly doubles by 2035. Supply can't respond fast: a US mine takes 29 years from discovery to production, and only three major US mines have opened since 2002. Freeport is the liquid bellwether; Southern Copper is the lowest-cost producer. x.com  x.com  … Show more

Copper, along with gold and silver, has been building tremendous underlying strength while everyone hated metals and focused on semiconductors. Metals did not make new lows during the last ten weeks of neglect, and industries can swing quickly from hated to loved. x.com