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South Africa Has AI Leverage. Its Draft Policy Leaves It Unused
This article is adapted by the author with permission from Tech Policy Press . Read the original article . South Africa is not just another developing country struggling to govern artificial intelligence (AI); it is the exception with leverage, and the window to act on it is closing. It holds approximately 88% of global platinum-group metal reserves , critical inputs to parts of the semiconductor and data center supply chains that make AI infrastructure possible. It hosts the largest data center market on the continent. Its existing hyperscaler relationships give it procurement leverage that most African states will never have . And a major geopolitical contest over AI infrastructure is being fought on its soil right now, between Chinese and American technology companies competing for control of the systems that will underpin an entire continent’s public sector. In physics, leverage requ
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According to IEEE Spectrum’s source item, South Africa Has AI Leverage. Its Draft Policy Leaves It Unused, This article is adapted by the author with permission from Tech Policy Press . Read the original article . South Africa is not just another developing country struggling to govern artificial intelligence (AI); it is the exception with leverage, and the window to act on it is closing. It holds approximately 88% of global platinum-group metal reserves , critical inputs to parts of the semiconductor and data center supply chains that make AI infrastructure possible. It hosts the largest data center market on the continent. Its existing hyperscaler relationships give it procurement leverage that most African states will never have . And a major geopolitical contest over AI infrastructure is being fought on its soil right now, between Chinese and American technology companies competing for control of the systems that will underpin an entire continent’s public sector. In physics, leverage requ
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