{"id":7282,"date":"2026-05-26T02:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T02:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/7282\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T02:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T02:26:10","slug":"a-nation-on-a-hard-drive-inside-the-rise-of-digital-embassies-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/7282\/","title":{"rendered":"A nation on a hard drive: Inside the rise of digital embassies \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sharing the AI load<\/p>\n

As Europe wakes up<\/a> to its dependence on private tech from the U.S. and China, some countries are weighing whether building a digital embassy is better than relying on a private cloud service.<\/p>\n

\"\" Luxembourg\u2019s Deputy Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, who says the principality has become a trusted digital partner, at a technolgoy summit in Lisbon in November 2024. | Horacio Villalobos\/Corbis\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we speak about digital sovereignty, we don\u2019t need to send them to the States or to Asia, we can do it in Europe,\u201d said Bettel. \u201cIt\u2019s not against someone, it\u2019s just in favor of sovereign Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n

The idea is also sparking the curiosity of countries that want to supercharge artificial intelligence development and data processing but don\u2019t have the resources to do it in their own country.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the World Economic Forum launched a global framework<\/a> for bilateral agreements to establish such digital embassies. The framework touches on things like access rights, data disclosures, jurisdiction, privacy laws, dispute resolution and the interoperability of infrastructure.<\/p>\n

As AI becomes increasingly important for economic competitiveness, national security and public services, computing and data storage demands are \u201caccelerating beyond what many economies, particularly the emerging ones, can support domestically due to structural limits in land, energy and capital,\u201d said Cathy Li, head of the WEF\u2019s Centre for AI Excellence.<\/p>\n

Bahrain, for example, has developed<\/a> a specific digital embassy law that allows institutions to store data on servers in Bahrain but keep it subject to the laws of their home countries. Saudi Arabia is also pushing<\/a> to become a global digital embassy hub for AI.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have finite energy on Earth, we have a finite infrastructure, and we believe that without some sort of shared access, the Earth would just not be able to support such large-scale infrastructure build-out,\u201d said Li.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sharing the AI load As Europe wakes up to its dependence on private tech from the U.S. and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[1179,991,1942,1943,1944,1945,1946,1947,1948,1949,1950,1951,1952,1953,1954,1955,1956,456,1600,1957,5,1958,1959,1960,1961,1962,1211,1963,1330,1964,1965,629,1966,630,303],"class_list":["post-7282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-luxembourg","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-bahrain","tag-big-tech","tag-borders","tag-cloud","tag-connectivity","tag-critical-infrastructure","tag-cyber-espionage","tag-cybercrime","tag-cybersecurity","tag-data","tag-data-privacy","tag-data-centers","tag-data-protection","tag-digital","tag-e-governance","tag-estonia","tag-india","tag-innovation","tag-kremlin","tag-luxembourg","tag-monaco","tag-network-security","tag-platforms","tag-privacy","tag-rights","tag-russia","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-security","tag-services","tag-singapore","tag-ukraine","tag-united-arab-emirates","tag-war-in-ukraine","tag-xavier-bettel"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}