{"id":69435,"date":"2026-03-19T10:55:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T15:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/prolonged-high-oil-prices-could-crimp-ai-boom-wto-warns\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T10:55:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T15:55:23","slug":"prolonged-high-oil-prices-could-crimp-ai-boom-wto-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/prolonged-high-oil-prices-could-crimp-ai-boom-wto-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolonged high oil prices could \u2018crimp\u2019 AI boom, WTO warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran war and its impact on energy and fertiliser costs is the main risk to the global economy, report says<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/mar\/19\/bank-of-england-interest-rates-decision-hold-inflation-oil-gas-iran-wage-growth-slows-latest-news-updates\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An extended period of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/mar\/19\/oil-prices-gas-prices-rise-iran-israel-donald-trump\">high oil prices<\/a> as a result of war in the Middle East could \u201ccrimp\u201d the AI boom, the World Trade Organization\u2019s chief economist has warned.<\/p>\n<p>The war and its impact on energy and fertiliser costs is the main risk to the global economy identified in the WTO\u2019s latest Global Trade Outlook.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/mar\/19\/oil-prices-ai-boom-wto-iran-war-energy-global-economy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran war and its impact on energy and fertiliser costs is the main risk to the global economy, report says Business live \u2013 latest updates An extended period of high oil prices as a result of war in the Middle East could \u201ccrimp\u201d the AI boom, the World Trade Organization\u2019s chief economist has warned. The &#8230; <a title=\"Prolonged high oil prices could \u2018crimp\u2019 AI boom, WTO warns\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/prolonged-high-oil-prices-could-crimp-ai-boom-wto-warns\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Prolonged high oil prices could \u2018crimp\u2019 AI boom, WTO warns\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}