ABSTRACT Hyperscale computing clusters now shape military readiness, economic productivity, and diplomatic leverage because the concentration of accelerated servers, interconnection capacity, and energy access inside cloud campuses determines who can train, deploy, and sustain frontier AI models at operational tempo. Authoritative energy statistics quantify the inflection: the International Energy Agency estimates global data-center electricity consumption … Leggi tutto Digital Terrain, Hard Power: Why Data Centers Are Now Strategic Assets in the Age of AI, Energy Scarcity and Contestable Infrastructure