Offshoring AI Compute to Authoritarian States Is Insane

At the point of approaching AGI, whoever controls the compute controls the power, so it is dangerously foolish to offshore data centers into non-democratic countries or accept large cryptocurrency payments from the UAE in exchange for handing over advanced chips that could reach China; instead the US should track chip locations (e.g. GPS in chips), constrain China's access to frontier AI chips to maintain a multi-year lead, and Europe should build up its own compute.