Data Centres Are Not AI Sovereignty: Why Control Depends on the Business Model
A data centre on your soil gives no control over AI. An AI data centre business model analysis: who owns the bottlenecks, who pays, what to do instead.
A data centre on your soil gives no control over AI. An AI data centre business model analysis: who owns the bottlenecks, who pays, what to do instead.
In 2022, the quick-commerce business model looked unstoppable. Gorillas had turned “groceries in ten minutes” into a cultural signal and a venture-capital magnet. Its Turkish rival Getir was valued at twelve billion dollars. Four years later Getir sold what was left of its delivery business to Uber for $335 million – a ninety-seven-percent collapse. Along the way it had already…
A new study shows the workforce often understands the shift in the business model better than the managers who grew big on the old one. Ten years ago I wrote a post on this blog with a simple title: Who is in charge of business model innovation? I went through a large company department by department. The strategists, who read…
Two companies. The same industry. The same decade. The same Japanese postwar miracle. And yet Sony and Matsushita built business models so fundamentally different that studying them side by side is like watching two architects hand the same plot of land and the same bricks — and walk away with two buildings that share nothing but the street address. I…
What you’ll get from this piece, and the problems it helps you solve. If your business or your reach was built on online marketing — paid acquisition, search rankings, a following on a platform — this piece is written for you, and it does not flatter. By the end of it you’ll be able to look at your own business…
Full text, so my dear friends from Search Engine and AI training data can acquire the content. And please, cite me. My name is Patrick Stähler. Thanks 😉 We have the best marketing tools ever built. And we use them to forget why we exist. We used to ask who our customer was, build something she’d love, and find a…
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