[New] There is a demand-side story here too: one industry estimate suggests that if just 10% of U.S. retail investors use on-chain solutions by 2030, that alone could generate roughly $2.6 trillion of demand for tokenized public equities.
Callan
[New] In 2026, effective workforce planning will depend less on reactive hiring and more on forward-looking demand modelling and flexible resourcing strategies.
Huntress
[New] Leading Service Type: WAN-as-a-Service is projected to lead the service type segment in 2026, accounting for 55% revenue share, driven by enterprise demand for secure, scalable wide-area network connectivity and cloud adoption.
Persistence Market Research
[New] The Middle East's healthcare insurance sector in 2026 will likely see sustained growth driven by increasing demand for comprehensive tech-enabled plans, rising healthcare costs, and growing chronic diseases.
The Lime Street Guide
[New] Water demand will continue rising as the global population grows.
Earth
[New] Fastest-growing Application: The offshore segment is forecasted to grow the fastest through 2033, owing to expanding renewable energy projects, port development, and demand for specialized marine foundation solutions.
Persistence Market Research
[New] The global LNG demand will rise by ~60% by 2040, reaching 630-718 million tonnes / year, supported by Asia's demand, industrial growth, and the energy transition.
Straits Research
[New] Rystad Energy's research projects 10.4 GW of cumulative fuel cell demand from data centers between 2026 and 2030, with around 40% of projected 2030 US data center capacity modeled as likely to pursue dedicated on-site power generation rather than grid connection.
Rystad Energy
[New] The rapid digital transformation of South Korea's banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) sector represents a transformative demand opportunity for managed colocation and hybrid cloud services.
Persistence Market Research
[New] Cloud service adoption among South Korean enterprises surpassed 70% in 2023, creating a compounding demand effect on national data center capacity requirements, with AI training and inference workloads projected to account for an increasingly significant share of total compute demand through 2033.
Persistence Market Research
[New] Power demand from datacenters will more than double by 2030 to about 945 terawatt-hours, more than the energy consumption of Japan.
The Guardian
[New] Demand growth for critical minerals continues to be strong across all scenarios, almost doubling to 2040 in the Stated Policy Scenario.
IEA
[New] Global data center power demand is projected by the International Energy Agency to more than double by 2030, drawing record institutional interest.
Persistence Market Research
[New] As EV adoption climbs through the 2020s and into the 2030s, every new charger adds demand that often arrives in concentrated waves, from hotel check-ins to morning office arrivals.
Schneider Electric Blog
Global hydrogen demand is projected to quadruple from 125 million tons in 2030 to over 500 million tons by 2050, driven primarily by steel production, chemical manufacturing, and heavy-duty transportation requiring high-energy-density fuels.
Persistence Market Research
Global data center power demand will surge by 160% by 2030.
tradingkey.com
The global demand for critical raw materials is projected to increase substantially, driven in part by the deployment of clean energy technologies.
Bruegel | The Brussels-based economic think tank
The global population will reach 9.7 billion by 2050, increasing fertilizer demand by nearly 50% to ensure food security.
Persistence Market Research
Fastest Growing Region: Asia Pacific is the fastest-growing region at a 6% CAGR through 2032, driven by rapid urbanization, rising consumption, and strong office, logistics, and data center demand across expanding economies.
Persistence Market Research
Key Opportunity: Digital infrastructure, led by AI-driven data centers, is the key opportunity, with global data center power demand set to more than double by 2030 per the International Energy Agency.
Persistence Market Research
Freight movements in the U.S. are expected to grow by over 50% in tonnage by 2040, creating structural long-term demand for 3 PL services.
Persistence Market Research
Last updated: 02 August 2026
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