Data centers built for frontier AI draw hundreds of megawatts of electricity and large volumes of cooling water from fixed locations with known addresses. Each one concentrates tens of thousands of graphics processors, liquid cooling systems, and high-density power equipment inside a single building. This physical footprint turns a nation’s AI capability into something an adversary can locate, measure, and degrade.
Data centers built for frontier AI draw hundreds of megawatts of electricity and large volumes of cooling water from fixed locations with known addresses. Each one concentrates tens of thousands of graphics processors, liquid cooling systems, and high-density power equipment inside a single building.
This physical footprint turns a nation’s AI capability into something an adversary can locate, measure, and degrade. Mechanisms determining AI sovereignty at the micro, meso, and macro levels are crucial.