CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY (Tommy Waller) - China protects its AI from an invisible threat the US ignores
Originally posted by National Interest
Protecting AI leadership requires more than building data centers. It also depends on securing the power grid against space weather threats. To win the artificial intelligence (AI ) race—America is pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into data centers—facilities that demand pristine, “clean” electrical power for sensitive equipment. Yet an invisible threat from the sun can turn those massive investments into costly liabilities for the United States and hand China the upper hand in this global competition. The threat is insidious and potentially inevitable . Solar storms hurl charged particles at Earth, disturbing our planet’s magnetic field and inducing powerful currents in the Earth’s crust. These “ground-induced…Open