Gene Marks reports that massive spending by tech giants on data centers is driving demand for aluminum, steel, and copper, offsetting the softening commercial construction market.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 27 September 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:30.1 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:41.3 | This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchelor. The Small Business Report with my good colleague, Gene Marks, back from the road in America, to report on the Business of America is Small Business. |
| 0:44.3 | We begin with Gene's presentation to the aluminum extruders council, |
| 0:49.3 | aluminum extruders council. |
| 0:52.3 | Aluminium. |
| 0:53.3 | Aluminium. In Atlanta,. Aluminium. Aluminium in Atlanta, Georgia. |
| 0:56.3 | Gene, welcome home. |
| 0:58.0 | Atlanta has a Federal Reserve Board that prints routinely the expectation of GDP growth right now, currency right now. |
| 1:06.8 | And it's been positive for weeks. |
| 1:08.2 | Do you see it in Atlanta? |
| 1:09.5 | Good evening to you. |
| 1:10.6 | Hi, John. |
| 1:11.1 | Yeah, you know, these, so this is a national conference. |
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