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Iran has caused a fuel crisis and spiked global prices, while the [increasing energy appetite of new AI datacenters has put more pressure](https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-consumers-face-rising-electricity-prices-despite-clean-power-savings--reeii-2026-04-28/) on power supplies. As energy costs and consumption continue
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei two days later. Over the next few days, Israel would displace more than 1.2 million people in Lebanon in a bombing campaign across the country. Israel has killed
Iran](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/20/iran-war-shocks-across-globe-effects-key-takeaways), which has disrupted flights and driven up operating costs, prompting Thailand’s tourism authority to revise down the national target for international arrivals by as much as 18%. But people fear
crisis, with Iran effectively shutting down the Strait of Hormuz soon after the war started, except for ships belonging to countries that negotiated separate deals. On Monday the US began a naval blockade