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An investment boom in artificial intelligence is creating a thirst for massive data centers—and a bonanza for the workers building them.

Meanwhile, Papperger’s assertive style has irked officials and some U.S. executives who have joined with the German business as a way to tap the booming European market.

Demand for copper, a conducting metal used in electrical wiring, has risen in recent years alongside the boom for wind turbines, electric vehicles and data centers for artificial intelligence.

Last summer, in a peaceful corner of one of England's most ancient forests, birdsong met boom mics.

Today, it has buildings erected a century or more ago when coal was booming.