UBP flags AI infrastructure as key catalyst for emerging-market electrification drive

• Union Bancaire Privee flagged electrification as a key resilience theme for emerging economies, citing efficiency gains and a pathway to lower-carbon power systems.
• Electricity’s share of final energy demand rose by over 10 percentage points since 2010 in China, Bangladesh, Vietnam.
• AI infrastructure was cited as the largest incremental driver of power demand, accelerating investment needs across electricity networks.
• Semiconductor demand linked to AI was positioned as a major EM catalyst, with Taiwan, South Korea now the top two MSCI Emerging Markets constituents.
• TSMC, Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix together account for 30% of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index weighting, highlighting concentration risk tied to the theme.

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