… They are now pushing for data sovereignty, local talent, and better terms from foreign providers, the experts said. “Africa’s push for digital sovereignty cannot mean total independence from global AI supply chains,” Rachel Adams, founder of the Global Center on AI Governance, told Rest of World . … …
… The UAE is emerging as one of the few nations with the wealth, energy, and partnerships to finance data centers at home while investing in U.S. gas infrastructure to generate electricity for data centers there. “The binding constraints in AI are no longer only chips or large language models,” Hafez… …
… Training and deploying AI at scale requires data centers, compute, networking capacity, energy, and advanced infrastructure. …
… Investing in open AI frameworks is investing in digital public infrastructure because it yields benefits through lower costs, retained policy autonomy, and economy-wide productivity gains. …
… The strikes disrupted services across banks, fintech platforms, and ride-hailing apps in the Gulf. Iran has since threatened to continue targeting American tech infrastructure, including the $30 billion Stargate AI data center that houses Nvidia GPU clusters and proprietary OpenAI systems. …
… The Gulf strikes demonstrate “where AI-era conflict is heading,” Miah Hammond-Errey, founding chief executive of Strat Futures, a risk consultancy, wrote in a blog post for The Lowy Institute. “Governments have integrated classified military and intelligence systems so deeply into commercial infras…
… While India has been positioning itself as being data-rich and the AI use case capital of the world, other countries like Rwanda and Nigeria have positioned themselves as sites for scaling hubs, and the United Arab Emirates is increasingly attractive for Big Tech to raise the capital it needs to fi… …
… The U.S. needs to treat Gulf data infrastructure the way it treats oil, integrating it into contingency planning and regional security coordination, Zabin said. That framework took decades to build for energy. For AI, it doesn’t exist yet. …
… AI developers, software companies, security researchers, open-source maintainers, and governments across the world “all have essential roles to play,” Anthropic said. “The work of defending the world’s cyber infrastructure might take years.” The White House has shot down a plan to expand access to …
… Trump has put it in the crosshairs By Bobby Ghosh Ideas Arguments, opinions and essays from a global perspective. Wars have always targeted the infrastructure of their age. …