Decentralization is a national-security advantage
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“When compute lives in a dozen hyperscale zones, it’s easy to surveil, easy to disrupt, easy to control. But when compute lives in 12,000 locations it’s resilient, it’s redundant, and it’s harder to censor, harder to kill, and harder to co-opt… We don’t win the AI age by concentrating compute. We win by distributing it. And that’s the American advantage.” — 00:15:43
Context: The geopolitical close — “defense by distribution, security by architecture” — followed by five policy asks including rooftop-solar-style permitting for small data centers and SMR licensing.