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The AI Divide Is Real — And It’s Reshaping Global Power, Strategy, and ROI #119b

The AI Divide Is Real — And It’s Reshaping Global Power, Strategy, and ROI #119b

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Jul 16, 2025
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The Global AI Divide: Compute Is the New Oil

Only 32 countries can train frontier AI. The rest? Stuck watching the show.

  • U.S. tech giants control 87 elite AI hubs; China owns 39. Europe has 6. Africa and South America? Nearly none.

  • OpenAI’s new Texas megasite will cost $60B—complete with its own gas plant.

  • Talent and startups in the Global South are locked out by latency, costs, and lack of infrastructure.

  • Export controls and chip scarcity are turning AI access into a geopolitical weapon.

TL;DR: Compute is power. Without it, nations risk becoming renters in the future economy—while the “Compute North” drills into an AI-rich (Source)


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