AI is the wests last chance to keep a competitive advantage over China. We have lost on every other major post industrial sector so far. The west will fail to win the AI race too because we do not have enough electricity to implement the planned massive data centres without causing huge price increases and or rolling power cuts. Chinas economic powerhouse has been built upon cheap electricity and they are building 12 new nuclear plants for the one the USA is building- and they build those 12 new nukes for the same cost as the one the USA builds. Game over US imperialism. You cannot even fight a war without rare earths and China has only given you a drip feed of them for the next twelve months while they attain their 4 nm microchips.