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Iran War Chokes Off Helium Supply Critical for AI
(www.wsj.com)
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this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2026
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you need helium for more than just AI. everything in whatever device you're using to read this depends on helium. AI just happens to also need helium, as it is also on devices much like the one you're using now.
but I don't know you, so maybe you are nostalgic for the times before the modern world, when people churned their own butter, and if you had been a hundred miles from where you were born, you were well traveled.
I know we need helium. But we need little don to lose even more.