Despite branding local data centers as sovereign infrastructure, Meta, Amazon and Alphabet retain full ownership of the cloud hardware they place in Global South countries. Researcher Rafael Grohmann proposes "popular digital sovereignty," drawn from Brazil's Homeless Workers Movement, where communities build worker-owned tech cooperatives independent of Big Tech and the state.
Sovereignty – AI Now Institute
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