By Arunima Kumar Oct 24 (Reuters) – Baker Hughes CEO Lorenzo Simonelli said on Friday the global macro environment remains resilient through 2025, despite geopolitical and policy headwinds, supported by the rapid deployment of generative artificial intelligence driving power demand and industrial activity. Simonelli said the company remains confident of reaching $1.5 billion in data center orders ahead of its original three-year target as it continues to see strong momentum in data center power demand. He, however, said Baker Hughes' outlook for 2025 remains unchanged, with a high-single-digit decline in global upstream spending expected. Simonelli cautioned that oversupply concerns in the oil market were weighing on sentiment, with some OPEC+ members still unable to meet production quotas

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