(JNS) The race for artificial intelligence dominance has increasingly come to be seen as a defining factor in shaping the world’s geopolitical future. As the stakes rise, leading powers such as the United States and China are shifting focus from exclusively innovating the technology itself to securing the physical infrastructure and supply chains needed to control the entire AI pipeline.
Modern AI models require enormous industrial systems linking everything from research and development labs to rare-earth mining operations, semiconductor manufacturing and data-center construction. The sprawling scale of this network makes it increasingly vulnerable to industrial espionage and disruption by geopolitical rivals, compounding the logistical complexity of maintaining secure and reliable access at every stage of development.
To address these vulnerabilities, a recent report by Michael Doran and Zineb Riboua of the Hudson Institute indicates that American and Israeli policymakers are advancing “Project Spire,” an initiative to establish a highly secure AI research, development and manufacturing campus across three sites in the western Negev Desert.
According to the report, the facility’s goal is to create an...
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