With the tech industry driving much of the need for more energy to funnel to its masses of AI servers, big industry names like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are backing a private company called KoBold Metals, which uses AI itself to search for the copper and other critical metals needed for the energy transition.
KoBold is a battery metal exploration and mining company that combines geoscience, data science, machine learning, and AI to search for the critical minerals needed for the clean energy transition. It said it has already made a discovery and has also entered into an earn-in agreement for another project in Zambia with with Midnight Sun Mining Corp