Geopolitics
The New Imperial Chokehold: How the West Is Weaponizing Electricity to Control the AI Future
The AI race has fundamentally shifted from a competition over computer chips to a brutal scramble for vast, reliable electricity, with tech giants like Microsoft signing multi-billion dollar deals to revive old nuclear reactors to power their data centers. This desperate pivot to nuclear power exposes a new form of resource imperialism, where control over energy infrastructure, not just technology, is becoming the decisive tool for the West, particularly the US, to maintain technological dominance and exclude the Global South.