NATO faces AI infrastructure gap as commercial data centres lack military-grade security (euobserver.com)

• Commercial data centres are not built to withstand hostile attack, as demonstrated by Iranian drone strikes on Amazon's Gulf sites.
• The US has restricted foreign access to frontier AI models, citing national security, creating an asymmetry in NATO's cyber defence.
• NATO needs to invest in dedicated high-security AI infrastructure, as market forces alone will not deliver the required resilience.

"NATO's most vital AI infrastructure is built for business, not war, and the Iranian drone strike on Amazon's Gulf data centres demonstrated the vulnerability. As NATO leaders meet in Ankara (7-8 July), they must confront the need for dedicated high-security AI facilities. The US has already restricted access to its frontier AI models for national security reasons, creating an asymmetry in cyber defence among allies. Building and certifying such facilities is expensive and unlikely to be delivered by the market alone, requiring NATO coordination on resilience and security standards."