AI sovereignty makes data centers strategic targets for cyber operations

This report models "AI sovereignty" as a function of compute, power, water, data, and workforce and highlights how those physical and logistical dependencies create attack surface for adversaries. It outlines kinetic (e.g., drone strikes on data centers) and non-kinetic levers — including cyber intrusions, data poisoning during model training, and supply-chain compromise of accelerators — that can degrade a rival nation's AI capability, and notes the analysis is qualitative and directional rather than providing technical or forensic detail.