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The Global A.I. Divide –Where A.I. Data Centers Are Located
“Oil-producing countries have had an oversized influence on international affairs; in an A.I.-powered near future, compute producers could have something similar since they control access to a critical resource,” said Vili Lehdonvirta, an Oxford professor who conducted the research on A.I. data centers with his colleagues Zoe Jay Hawkins and Boxi Wu.
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Where Chinese Or American Tech Is Used In Cloud Data Storage
Research from Vili Lehdonvirta, Boxi Wú and Zoe Hawkins at the University of Oxford and Finland’s Aalto University shows which countries are home to which kind of data centers.
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Meta plans globe-spanning sub-sea internet cable
“Over the past decade there has been a shift in which these cables are increasingly laid by large technology companies,” Professor Vili Lehdonvirta of the Oxford Internet Institute told the BBC.
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America v China: who controls Asia’s internet?
Of a panel of 12 Asian countries, seven have a majority of Chinese-run cloud clusters, according to a study by Vili Lehdonvirta and colleagues at the Oxford Internet Institute.
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Exclusive: New Research Finds Stark Global Divide in Ownership of Powerful AI Chips
A new paper shows that GPUs are highly concentrated in only 30 countries in the world, with the U.S. and China far out ahead. Much of the world lies in what the authors call “Compute Deserts:” areas where there are no GPUs for hire at all.
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Will the United States ban TikTok?
The Al Jazeera ‘Counting the Cost’ programme interview Prof Vili Lehdonvirta about the potential US TikTok band and its economic and geopolitical impacts.
Digital Economic Security Lab
Professor Vili Lehdonvirta
University of Oxford and Aalto University