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The Pentagon is not buying AI: it is buying time

September 13, 2026
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The Pentagon is about to admit something Washington has long been hinting at: artificial intelligence is no longer decided solely in laboratories or in the offices of big tech companies; it is decided by who can build data centers, manufacture their components, and connect them to sufficient electricity

The Pentagon is about to admit something Washington has long been hinting at: artificial intelligence is no longer decided solely in laboratories or in the offices of big tech companies; it is decided by who can build data centers, manufacture their components, and connect them to sufficient electricity before everyone else. The news is that the U.S. Department of Defense is reportedly negotiating a loan of around $5 billion for Fluidstack, a cloud company specializing in artificial intelligence. But my thesis is more uncomfortable: this is not, in essence, a bet on a startup. It is a preemptive bailout of a supply chain that the United States fears discovering too late that it does not control.

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