Comment by S. Yash Kalash

Senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation; expert in strategy, public policy, digital technology and financial services.
Europe, the United Kingdom, the Gulf, and China point in the same direction. The European Union is mobilizing capital for AI factories and gigafactories. The UK has treated data centers as critical national infrastructure. Gulf states are building AI through sovereign wealth capital. China is pursuing AI infrastructure as an industrial and geopolitical project. Their models differ, but the impulse is the same: no serious state wants its economy, defense systems, and public services to depend entirely on private or foreign intelligence infrastructure.
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