According to CNBC, an article in Foreign Policy by Jared Cohen calls for the US to compete with China for cooperating with other countries in building data centers.
Data centers are a key piece of artificial intelligence infrastructure. Where they pop up around the globe could have lasting geopolitical impacts for the U.S., says Goldman Sachs’ president of global affairs.
Jared Cohen, the former CEO of Google’s Jigsaw and now co-head of the Goldman Sachs Global Institute, compares the momentum in AI to the next Industrial Revolution in a new op-ed this week in Foreign Policy. In this technology wave, the opportunity exists for “data center diplomacy,” he wrote.
“The Arab Gulf countries of the Middle East present many promising opportunities for AI data centers,” Cohen wrote. “With young, ambitious leaders, these countries aim not just to export oil, but also AI. As one prominent official from the United Arab Emirates recently emphasized, ‘We missed the first industrial revolution, but we are not missing the AI revolution.’”