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There isn't a fuel that's much more relevant than oil. It's basically the lifeblood of logistics. You don't need massive server farms to have a reasonably modern nation, you do need motorized transport though and oil is the best fuel for small motor vehicles as well as what almost all of them have been built for in in the last century.
Short of an entire global restructuring of logistical networks or massive advancements in alternative fuels oil just can't be beat in terms of importance due to it's versatility and utility for last leg shipping.
Like I said, I'm imagining future next iterations, it's not a right-now kind of proposal.
The logistics restructuring pressure is already there for electric and has slowly been chipping away at the infrastructure wherever it is remotely practical, and if things carry on in the current trend then you will need massive local server farms to remain a competitive modern nation sooner or later. At some point in the foreseeable future there's a good chance that electrical power is an even more universal necessity than gas.