The Megawatt Siege: Sovereign AI and the New Geography of Power In our opening essay, The New Tordesillas, we argued that the world is being reorganized around a single strategic objective: control over the speed and geography of the energy…

The New Tordesillas: Energy, Money, and the Partition of the World On May 14, 2026, Chinese President Xi Jinping opened his summit with Donald Trump in Beijing with a single question: could the United States and China overcome the “Thucydides…