How Trump’s Greenland gambit fits into the AI arms race
The Trump administration's Greenland ambitions may be fuelled by its drive for AI supremacy as much as by the lure of rare earth riches and Arctic influence.
US President Donald Trump’s push to seize Greenland from Denmark may threaten the old world order, but it offers a glimpse into a scramble to shape the next.
Washington is locked in a two-way contest with Beijing over artificial intelligence, a technology set to shape the coming decades and reliant on vast resources and power-hungry data centres.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has already positioned Australia in that contest, inking a USD8.5 billion ($12.7 billion) deal with Trump in October to secure a pipeline of critical minerals.
The deal is part of a patchwork of rare earth partnerships the US has assembled since last year to loosen China’s grip on the global market.
