🔮 Exponential View’s year in review
Our best thinking from a year of acceleration
2025 was the year the compute economy became real.
Massive infrastructure commitments. Data centres acquiring power plants. AI models that reason. The central question went from “what can AI do?” to “how do we build the energy systems, governance frameworks, and coordination mechanisms to absorb what’s coming?”
That question – how intelligence, energy, and coordination collide – is the organising logic of Exponential View. Nearly every meaningful story we tracked this year sat somewhere on that fault line. You couldn’t understand one without the others.
Here’s a curated map of our most durable work from 2025 – your fastest way to catch up and revisit the ideas that matter.
Begin with the stars (★): the pieces most likely to outrun the news cycle by far. Choose two or three that fit your current challenges to make the most of today’s review.
And if you’ve been reading the free editions, wondering whether to go deeper, now is the time – it’s only going to get weirder!
