AI data centres and combat drone units are bidding for the same glass fibre. Dimko Zhluktenko, a drone operator with Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, said in May that 50km spools his unit used to buy for $300 are now "easily $2,500" (DroneXL, 11 May). Drone units on both sides in Ukraine burn tens of millions of kilometres of it a year. The cheap weapon has an expensive input. https://fault-line.io/extra-013/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=extra-013&utm_content=extra-013-fibre-price #drones