The future of AI and trade
- Jun 1
- 1 min read
TIME — The reason AI’s impact on trade is so wide-reaching is that while a data center might be located in Virginia and use American-designed semiconductors and large language models, it is ultimately a citizen of the world, home to chips fabricated in Taiwan and extreme-ultraviolet lithography machines made in the Netherlands.
These are paired with Korean memory chips, which may be packaged or tested in Southeast Asia. Mexican turbines and Chilean copper power it up. In other words, that data center is the end product of the complex workings of global supply chains.
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