A view from orbit: Digital power may be invisible, but its infrastructure is now as critical as any territory on Earth. Unsplash+ In 2024, the world’s digital economies constituted about 15 percent of global GDP in nominal terms, and there are rising elements of emerging digital economies in almost every nation, according to the International […]
Sam Altman’s OpenAI Is Mulling a Data Center in the Middle East
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman waits to meet the Saudi Crown Prince at the Royal Court in Riyadh on May 13, 2025. AFP via Getty Images As President Donald Trump’s tour of the Middle East gathers momentum, OpenAI is positioning itself at the heart of a geopolitical realignment that could reshape where A.I. is developed—and who […]