Signal Submarine cables, cloud data centres and low orbit satellites are named as privately held

Summary

This signal explains where technology firms' geopolitical leverage comes from: ownership of infrastructure. The report states that most communications infrastructure is privately owned. That includes submarine cables, the data centres that make up the cloud, and satellites in low earth orbit. It names Google, Meta, Oracle, Microsoft, Amazon, SpaceX and Huawei among the owners. Because economic and strategic power now runs on these systems, their private control gives companies influence that used to rest with states. The report later warns that such owners could restrict essential services as leverage in conflicts or negotiations.