US needs allied datacenters it can't build at home, argues Foreign Policy piece
abhiadesai · x · 2026-10-13
Anton D. Leicht argues in Foreign Policy (with Sam WinterLevy) that the American AI industry needs far more datacenters than it can build domestically. The piece proposes that US allies host these datacenters and secure access to frontier AI in return, discussing how to get the compute-for-access bargain right.
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