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GEOCLOUD: The Geopolitics of Cloud Computing
The Geopolitics of Cloud Computing: How State-Firm Interactions Shape the Geography of Computation to Produce Digital Sovereignty and Dependence 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2029Funded by the European Research Council Today’s digital superpowers, the United States and China, exploit other countries’ reliance on their digital infrastructures for foreign policy and national security advantage. Governments…
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The political geography of AI infrastructure
April 2023 – March 2024Funded by Dieter Schwarz Stiftung The development of frontier AI systems is dominated by a handful of labs associated with Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, the dominant cloud computing providers. Competition regulators are concerned that these technology giants are using anticompetitive behaviours to dominate the cloud computing market, allowing them to capture…
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Understanding the Causes of the Reverse Personal Computing Revolution
April 2024 – March 2025Funded by Dieter Schwarz Stiftung The development of frontier AI systems is dominated by a handful of labs associated with Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, the dominant cloud computing providers. Competition regulators are concerned that these technology giants are using anticompetitive behaviours to dominate the cloud computing market, allowing them to capture…
Digital Economic Security Lab
Professor Vili Lehdonvirta
University of Oxford and Aalto University