Authored by Dr. Ayo Olufade When you look at your phone, query a large language model, or deploy an automated script, the digital world feels weightless. We have been conditioned to treat “the cloud” as an ethereal, abstract dimension of pure software logic. But the cloud is not weightless. The cloud is heavy industrial infrastructure. Right now, we are locked in an explosive global artificial intelligence arms race. While public focus has largely centered on the energy r