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speaking to the Aluminum Extruder's Council in Atlanta, Georgia.

Business is good.

Business will continue to be very good for foundries, for aluminum, for steel, for copper, those three especially, iron for steel.

Because of the building of the data centers, your gene identifies where the century is headed

and the demand for those data centers.

This is AI.

The inside of AI is a trillions of dollars of

creation of data centers around the world. The balance of this century. Much more of this

tonight. So, you know, it's interesting that you bring that up, John. You know, there were,

you know, a few in the room that are really

benefiting from the data center building, you know, demand that's been going on around the country.

And let us not underscore that the literally billions of dollars that are being spent by Microsoft,

Amazon, Google, meta, and other companies building these data centers, many of them here in the U.S.,

they are really making up for the slowdown in commercial building and construction

and residential building instruction work that we're seeing because of the softening

and the commercial construction market.

So it's really been like a blessing in disguise.

I mean, these data centers, although they come with their carbon footprint issues and

their environmental issues, they've really been propping up a lot of construction companies

and then indirectly companies that are participating in the aluminum extruders council

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