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📍Tracking the news, research and thoughts on the geopolitics of digital technologies (⚠️ semiconductors)
Economical competition📈, social and environmental stakes...
'Cause the virtual world 🌐 looks awfully material 🌏 !
Brought to u by ENSSIB students.
#ShowDontTell 👀 Here's some interactive maps of the major internet infrastructures around the globe🗺️⤵️
If you're often at a loss as to the details of the internet, worry no more, you can visualize it !
First here's a quick run through of Internet's working and history :
urlr.me/JW9eYC
November 15, 2025 at 7:46 AM
🇫🇷 Les États-Unis renforcent leur autonomie numérique : l’Arizona devient un hub clé pour les semi-conducteurs.

🇬🇧The US is boosting digital autonomy as Arizona becomes a key semiconductor hub. A strategic move for tech sovereignty.
markets.financialcontent.com/wral/article...
The Silicon Desert Blooms: Arizona Forges America’s New Semiconductor Frontier
The Silicon Desert Blooms: Arizona Forges America’s New Semiconductor Frontier
markets.financialcontent.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Zoom : 🇺🇸 data-centers and who pays for them ? Aside the environmental cost, data-centers have a financial cost too. In the USA questions arise about those informational hubs and their local effects, through their actual tax incomes or their energy demands. ⤵️
First where are those data-centers ?
Mapped: The Massive Network Powering U.S. Data Centers
Mapped: Where America’s data centers are located—and how their growing power needs are straining the U.S. electricity grid.
www.visualcapitalist.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
🇫🇷 Ténèze montre comment Israël a bâti une puissance cyber fondée sur l’alliance du civil et du militaire.
🇬🇧 Israel’s cyberpower stems from tight civil-military cooperation.

📚 Revue Défense Nationale (2015)
🔗 shs.cairn.info/revue-defens...
shs.cairn.info
November 12, 2025 at 10:04 AM
🇫🇷 O. Coelho révèle comment les GAFAM bâtissent un impérialisme numérique fondé sur dépendance et puissance technologique.
🇬🇧 O. Coelho shows how GAFAMs build a digital imperialism rooted in dependence and tech power.

📚 Ouvrage de référence disponible sur Cairn:
🔗 shs.cairn.info/geopolitique...
shs.cairn.info
November 5, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Reposted by GeoNum
This video is really important.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...

It connects the dots between A.I. and climate disasters and is just a perfectly crafted piece of investigation and exposition.

@katecrawford.bsky.social
Opinion | A.I.’s Environmental Impact Will Threaten Its Own Supply Chain
www.nytimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
🇺🇸/🇨🇳 AI in geoeconomics poses a choice between "a divided future [techno-nationalism] and one where rivals, however reluctantly, agree on the rules of engagement for this transformative technology."

See Adora Yin's article on Sputnik-Deep Seek analogy :
ajosr.org/wp-content/u...
ajosr.org
November 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"The EU AI Act offers a vital framework for ensuring the safe and ethical use of AI in health care but its effectiveness depends on balanced implementation amid geopolitical uncertainty"

On AI technologies, regulations and healthcare in the EU :
ai.jmir.org/2025/1/e75527/
Balancing Innovation and Control: The European Union AI Act in an Era of Global Uncertainty
The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), adopted in 2024, represents a landmark regulatory framework for AI systems, with profound implications for healthcare. This paper examines th...
ai.jmir.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM