Compute sovereignty is a sovereign's control over where the computing infrastructure behind AI sits, who owns it and where the chips come from. Computing power is shaping up to be a strategic resource of this century.
How the word moved
I wrote about it in November 2025, using Oxford research that breaks it into three levels - location, control and supply chain - and the Global AI Divide that follows.
In my words
"computing power is shaping up to be a strategic resource of the 21st century"
from Bhumics: The Weekly Planet #11. On Compute Sovereignty, 3 Nov 2025
Related
- Related Metabolic Sovereignty - compute is one of its two components.
- Related Computestate - compute sovereignty is what a computestate is after.
- Related Energy Sovereignty - compute governs power and power births compute.
- Related Cognitive Sovereignty - it extends compute sovereignty to thinking itself.