How “sovereign AI” could shape telecom
Artificial intelligence is now a central factor in economic competition, national security and everyday services. As governments lean harder on AI, they are rethinking how much they depend on foreign technology. That shift is driving interest in "sovereign AI" — national strategies to design, build and run AI systems on domestic infrastructure, under local laws and political control.
Telecom operators sit in the middle of this change. Their networks, data centers and spectrum rights make them natural hosts for national AI infrastructure. As countries push to keep data, compute power and key applications within their borders, telcos are likely to play a larger role in how AI is deployed, secured and regulated, and in how nations try to balance openness with control over critical digital systems.
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