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Saying yes to Stargate projects therefore also means linking one's digital future more closely to a US-led understanding of AI, where politics, technology and infrastructure work in tandem to consolidate American dominance, write Lisa Reutter Larsen and Signe Ravn Højgaard.
Photo: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
This post is solely an expression of the writer's own opinion. All contributions to Altinget must comply with the press ethics rules.
"As our global competitors vie to leverage these technologies, it is necessary for the United States to achieve and maintain unchallenged and unchallenged global technological dominance in national security."
This is how President Donald Trump is launching the USA's new strategy for artificial intelligence.
The strategy is launched just a few days before the news that a giant AI data center is to be built in Northern Norway with the captivating name Stargate Norway. But what role does the planned data center in Norway play in the Trump administration's ambition to build a global AI empire?
Stargate Norway is OpenAI's first AI data center in Europe under the program 'OpenAI for Countries'. It will be built in collaboration with Norwegian Aker and British Nscale, and it will deliver large, scalable computing power close to European users and authorities – and close to large renewable energy resources.
Like Denmark, where Apple, Meta, Google and soon Microsoft have established data centers, Norway, with its cool climate, green energy and well-developed infrastructure, is an attractive location for American technology companies' expansion of data center capacity.
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Norway and Denmark are both among the world's most digitalized countries, and digital infrastructure has become an integrated – but often invisible – part of our everyday lives.
We correct tax returns online, write countless emails at work, design text drafts with artificial intelligence and stream our favorite series in the holiday home. For all of this to happen, we rely on everything from data centers to submarine cables and software.
Analyses from the Think Tank Digital Infrastructure show that today it is a small number – mainly American technology companies – that own and control large parts of the digital infrastructure that underpins all digital activity in the Nordic region.
Denmark and Norway have recently been ranked among the European countries with the greatest reliance on foreign-owned digital infrastructure. The establishment of American data centers on Nordic soil is an important piece in the consolidation of the power of technology companies.
OpenAI's ChatGPT can take much of the credit for making large language models commonplace. But this is just the beginning: AI is being integrated ever deeper into our lives and into all aspects of our digital lives.
This requires more computing power and a global expansion of the infrastructure. New submarine cables, data centers and advanced chips will enable a future where everything can be automated and simplified.
Stargate Norway was launched just a few days after the Trump administration presented America's AI Action Plan: Winning the Race on July 23. The plan outlines how the U.S. will export its entire AI technology stack of hardware, models, software, applications, and standards to countries that want to become part of the U.S. AI alliance.
The goal is American control over this new and important infrastructure.
This must be done by being the ones who set global standards and norms for how AI is developed, managed and expanded – and by exporting American systems to the world.
It also involves measures that can weaken competitors, for example by limiting China's access to advanced chips through stricter export controls.
OpenAI has expressed clear support for the US AI strategy and writes on its website: "We are supporting the global buildout of AI on US-led rails".
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The company is working closely with the U.S. government to realize the AI strategy through the Stargate program – a program that President Trump called "the largest AI infrastructure project ever" when he launched it together with, among others, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, in January 2025.
The Stargate program so far also includes a large data center project in the United Arab Emirates, Stargate UAE, where OpenAI, in collaboration with the U.S. government, will help the country implement AI based on U.S. democratic values.
While the computing power in Northern Norway will benefit Norwegian and European players, much of the control lies with American players: Nvidia controls the chip supply, OpenAI controls the models, and the US government has legal and regulatory tools – including through the US Cloud Act and export controls.
Saying yes to Stargate projects therefore also means linking one's digital future more closely to a US-led understanding of AI, where politics, technology and infrastructure work in tandem to consolidate American dominance.
The Stargate initiative is the latest manifestation of the race between the United States and China to build digital empires – with data centers, chips, energy and promises of technological magic.
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Source: https://www.altinget.dk/digital/art...-det-hvide-hus-strategi-om-ai-verdensdominans
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I think the above article is a very important piece and I think all nations should have hardcore budget and plan for protecting and even having their own independent AI solution.
The solution solving or project should be anchored in Universities in collaboration with a Defense industry company and Law enforcement or Armed forces for safety and such.
Think tank: Behind new data center in Norway lies the White House's strategy for AI world dominance
Behind the plans for OpenAI's new giant data center in northern Norway is a strategy from the White House on technological control, where the United States seeks political and technological influence. This gives Europe computing power, but at the same time keeps the region in a dependency on the United States' digital empire, writes the Think Tank Digital Infrastructure.
Saying yes to Stargate projects therefore also means linking one's digital future more closely to a US-led understanding of AI, where politics, technology and infrastructure work in tandem to consolidate American dominance, write Lisa Reutter Larsen and Signe Ravn Højgaard.
Photo: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
Lisa Reutter Larsen & Signe Ravn Højgaard
Researcher, PhD and project manager at the Think Tank Digital Infrastructure and Ph.D. and director of the Think Tank Digital InfrastructureThis post is solely an expression of the writer's own opinion. All contributions to Altinget must comply with the press ethics rules.
"As our global competitors vie to leverage these technologies, it is necessary for the United States to achieve and maintain unchallenged and unchallenged global technological dominance in national security."
This is how President Donald Trump is launching the USA's new strategy for artificial intelligence.
The strategy is launched just a few days before the news that a giant AI data center is to be built in Northern Norway with the captivating name Stargate Norway. But what role does the planned data center in Norway play in the Trump administration's ambition to build a global AI empire?
Stargate Norway is OpenAI's first AI data center in Europe under the program 'OpenAI for Countries'. It will be built in collaboration with Norwegian Aker and British Nscale, and it will deliver large, scalable computing power close to European users and authorities – and close to large renewable energy resources.
Like Denmark, where Apple, Meta, Google and soon Microsoft have established data centers, Norway, with its cool climate, green energy and well-developed infrastructure, is an attractive location for American technology companies' expansion of data center capacity.
Read also
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Norway and Denmark are both among the world's most digitalized countries, and digital infrastructure has become an integrated – but often invisible – part of our everyday lives.
We correct tax returns online, write countless emails at work, design text drafts with artificial intelligence and stream our favorite series in the holiday home. For all of this to happen, we rely on everything from data centers to submarine cables and software.
Analyses from the Think Tank Digital Infrastructure show that today it is a small number – mainly American technology companies – that own and control large parts of the digital infrastructure that underpins all digital activity in the Nordic region.
Denmark and Norway have recently been ranked among the European countries with the greatest reliance on foreign-owned digital infrastructure. The establishment of American data centers on Nordic soil is an important piece in the consolidation of the power of technology companies.
The White House seeks control
The power of technology companies is about ownership of infrastructure, the ability to define standards, their financial strength, and their often overlapping interests with US governments.OpenAI's ChatGPT can take much of the credit for making large language models commonplace. But this is just the beginning: AI is being integrated ever deeper into our lives and into all aspects of our digital lives.
This requires more computing power and a global expansion of the infrastructure. New submarine cables, data centers and advanced chips will enable a future where everything can be automated and simplified.
Stargate Norway was launched just a few days after the Trump administration presented America's AI Action Plan: Winning the Race on July 23. The plan outlines how the U.S. will export its entire AI technology stack of hardware, models, software, applications, and standards to countries that want to become part of the U.S. AI alliance.
The goal is American control over this new and important infrastructure.
This must be done by being the ones who set global standards and norms for how AI is developed, managed and expanded – and by exporting American systems to the world.
It also involves measures that can weaken competitors, for example by limiting China's access to advanced chips through stricter export controls.
OpenAI has expressed clear support for the US AI strategy and writes on its website: "We are supporting the global buildout of AI on US-led rails".
Read also
Debate
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The company is working closely with the U.S. government to realize the AI strategy through the Stargate program – a program that President Trump called "the largest AI infrastructure project ever" when he launched it together with, among others, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, in January 2025.
The Stargate program so far also includes a large data center project in the United Arab Emirates, Stargate UAE, where OpenAI, in collaboration with the U.S. government, will help the country implement AI based on U.S. democratic values.
A Nordic gateway to the stars
Stargate Norway can thus be understood as part of a larger American geopolitical ambition: to export infrastructure, standards and values – and thus lock allies into an American AI ecosystem that will constitute the very engine of tomorrow's digital society.While the computing power in Northern Norway will benefit Norwegian and European players, much of the control lies with American players: Nvidia controls the chip supply, OpenAI controls the models, and the US government has legal and regulatory tools – including through the US Cloud Act and export controls.
Saying yes to Stargate projects therefore also means linking one's digital future more closely to a US-led understanding of AI, where politics, technology and infrastructure work in tandem to consolidate American dominance.
The Stargate initiative is the latest manifestation of the race between the United States and China to build digital empires – with data centers, chips, energy and promises of technological magic.
Read also
Source: https://www.altinget.dk/digital/art...-det-hvide-hus-strategi-om-ai-verdensdominans
_____________________________________________
I think the above article is a very important piece and I think all nations should have hardcore budget and plan for protecting and even having their own independent AI solution.
The solution solving or project should be anchored in Universities in collaboration with a Defense industry company and Law enforcement or Armed forces for safety and such.
