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   A trillion-dollar race for AI independence that's deepening dependencies
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               A trillion-dollar race for AI independence that's deepening dependencies
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               A trillion-dollar bet is enticing governments across the globe, built on a promise of digital independence. Construct your own data centers, process your citizens' data domestically, and capture economic value from the AI boom instead of watching it flow exclusively to Silicon Valley. From Southeast Asia to the Middle East
to Europe, governments are committing billions to what they're calling "sovereign AI," a new form of digital independence for the era of intelligent machines.
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               It's being
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               framed as digital decolonization
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               . Just as colonial powers once extracted oil and minerals while offering minimal benefits to locals, the argument goes, a handful of American tech giants now extract data, transform it into intelligence, and sell it back to the countries it came from. Sovereign AI promises to break that cycle.
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               But there's a 
fundamental contradiction at the heart of this giant buildout. Countries are pursuing sovereignty by making themselves more dependent on the very foreign companies they claim to be protecting themselves from.
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               The sovereignty paradox
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               The pattern is playing out everywhere. In 
Indonesia, the country's second-largest telecom
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               25-fold by 2028 — a roughly $5 billion investment 
it can't make without Nvidia chips and American cloud partnerships.
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               Saudi Arabia secured preliminary approval to buy 18,000 Nvidia chips during President Donald Trump's visit in May and expects to
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               India is
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               receiving a $15 billion investment
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               from Google.
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billion
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               from Amazon Web Services. France is building what it calls
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— in partnership with Nvidia.
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               The justifications for AI sovereignty vary. Some countries want to ensure AI models incorporate local languages and values. Others worry about sensitive healthcare data flowing into foreign systems. Smaller nations argue that domestic infrastructure guarantees cheaper, more reliable access for local companies and researchers who are otherwise
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               But none of these projects
deliver anything close to self-sufficiency. Nvidia, based in the heart of Silicon Valley, dominates the AI chip market with a roughly 90% share. Its only serious rival, AMD, is also American. The servers that house these chips come mostly from Dell and Supermicro — both American. Even China, which has built something close to a self-sufficient AI stack, hasn't yet developed an alternative to American processors.
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               U.S. export controls on advanced AI chips give 
Washington leverage over every country seeking to build AI infrastructure. Saudi Arabia's chip purchases are still pending final approval months after Trump's visit. Future sales may be tied to individual trade deals, and countries find themselves caught between U.S. security demands and their existing relationships with Chinese tech companies.
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