Who controls data controls the future
SAN FRANCISCO — In March, Iranian drones targeted three Amazon Web Services facilities in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, hitting two directly and nearly hitting the third. It was the first time a commercial data center had been a military target, yet almost nobody outside specialist circles noticed. They should have. The servers holding a country’s data, and the chips running the…
In March, Iranian drones struck three Amazon Web Services facilities in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, damaging two and narrowly missing the third. This marked the first time a commercial data center had been targeted by a military force. However, the incident received little attention outside of specialist circles. The servers storing a nation's data and the chips powering its artificial intelligence (AI) models have become strategic assets, akin to ports or power grids, and are now as vulnerable as those critical infrastructures.
Over the past decade, data had been a commodity for companies to extract, while AI was a product for them to sell, both regulated through privacy laws. This perspective has changed. AI is now embedded within finance, defense, healthcare, and public administration, relying on two resources that most governments lack control over: the data used to train it and the computational power to process it.
Nations that fail to recognize this will have their future decisions made in boardrooms where they have no say.
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