Where did it all start? Computers, data collection, data storage, artificial intelligence, data analysis, advanced data collection technology, interoperability for sharing data between computers, data centers to store more data. With such “investments” by the government in these new technologies, the government now has to take action to protect all of it.
Now that the United States, and the world for that matter, continues building these digital infrastructure monsters, there is a term that has been recently garnering more attention called digital sovereignty. The easiest way to explain its meaning is that it is the “capacity of a state, organization, or individual to independently control digital infrastructure, data, and decision-making processes within their jurisdiction.” Of course, everyone wants control over their own monster.
As the digital age continues to explode, both the United States and other countries are scrambling to get control over their own infrastructure and data systems. Continuing to believe in its omnipotence as the one and only authority, the United Nations (UN) released its Global Digital Compact in 2025 for digital cooperation and governance over artificial intelligence (AI), a primary nucleus in a technological monster.
The UN doesn’t like the idea of sovereignty in anything, including the digital world, and opposes tech companies having control over their own digital world. Instead, the UN wants “global cooperation on digital development, access and inclusion” and that “digital technologies – including AI – are governed in ways that protect human rights…”. Its main emphasis is multilateral cooperation over unilateral control. What the UN really wants is access to everything for its own global control appetite.
The U.S. Department of State has its own ideas on digital sovereignty while mocking the UN kumbaya ideology. However, its interpretation is somewhat different than what is espoused by the UN, instead describing it as the UN wanting “every nation to build its own AI stack.” Instead, the State Department explains, “Digital sovereignty was never a wall, and it was never a copy. It was always a frontier—and the only nations that will be digitally sovereign in the age of intelligence are the ones bold enough to keep pushing it outward, into the territory no one has built yet.” Sounds like a spin-off from Star Trek.
So, in place of the U.S. being digitally sovereign, it has instead chosen to drag another twenty-four countries into its Pax Silica Declaration. Built around an economic concept, the declaration incorporates many facets of digital technology, including technology supply chains, software applications and platforms, information connectivity and network infrastructure, compute and semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, transportation logistics, minerals refining and processing, and energy, ecosystems of AI developers and vendors, information and communication technology systems, fiberoptic cables, and data centers. It is a digitally sovereign conglomeration between countries. When looking at this, it appears there is a whole technological world being built that humanity will be forced to live under.
Initially resistant to cooperation, the European Commission has now relented to being part of the Declaration, perhaps because of a $250 million dangling carrot. Already, there have been summits that fully mesh governments together with the private sector and other organizations. Once called fascism or corporatism, it has been renamed “collaborative governance“, now on a global scale. Naturally, it is only for our well-being and security.
This was even more evident with its Joint Statement on AI Opportunity, with even more countries focusing on “empowering builders, startups, developers and the private sector while securing global AI supply chains.” A new workforce development school will be formed by Stanford University and the State Department called the Foundry School initiative. With a $50 million carrot, it also created Pax Pass that will streamline the movement of critical AI goods.
Under Secretary Jacob Helberg “framed the initiative as an alternative to approaches centered on digital sovereignty”. Helberg’s resume is concerning as the Senior Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer of Palantir Technologies, former lead for Google’s internal global product policy efforts, and Sam Altman is conducting his marriage. Just another technocrat undermining our Republic while usurping control away from citizen representation.
This approach isn’t an alternative to digital sovereignty; it is isolating control under one massive group of countries acting collectively as a sovereign, having supreme authority and power over digital infrastructures. Helberg himself even describes the Foundry for “those who can harness AI to transform the physical world” and foster an “AI economy“. What the heck does either of those things mean?
In a post by Nayef Al-Nabet, he states, “Building #Digital_Sovereignty is not about isolation; it is about building national capabilities through strategic partnerships. For countries like #Qatar, its participation in #Pax_Silica, together with its strong strategic partnership with the United States, should create more opportunities for collaborations of this kind—connecting researchers, universities, and future policymakers to world-class AI ecosystems. That is how countries build lasting #Digital_Sovereignty.” Pax Silica isn’t a country; it is a thing.
This whole misnomer of “digital sovereignty” was previously addressed at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in 2025. It has nothing to do with sovereignty as an American may understand the term; it has to do with control and economics to “include fostering entrepreneurship and funding innovation”. Essentially, sovereignty is about “control over your own digital destiny – the data, hardware and software that you rely on and create.” Pax Silica, by controlling the goods, supply chains, and elements that make it work, creates that economic sovereignty by controlling every element.
WEF clearly understands this digital sovereignty spiel is a “strategic concern – rather than a purely technological one – due to geopolitical tensions, intricate financing structures and the digitization of public services” and that “economies should shape their AI infrastructure choices around flexibility and future readiness.” That is exactly what Pax Silica is doing.
In fact, this WEF article lays out the framework exactly for Pax Silica and what it is doing. Maintaining “strategic control over critical technologies, ensuring sovereignty becomes a stimulus…for innovation and growth.”; recognizing “Digital architecture relies on rare earths, semiconductors, data centres, infrastructure, hardware, software and increasingly AI models” that are sourced across borders; that “No single country or company controls the entire value chain”; that data sovereignty “encompasses multiple dimensions of sovereignty…including “control over data storage, access and governance; executing digital operations; and technical development and control, including hardware”. Doing this requires “intelligent partnerships” which is pure unadulterated globalism, that is, collaborative governance.
According to WEF, this is part of the AI revolution that will help move the world where “digital sovereignty and global competitiveness are no longer trade-offs, but two facets of the same, shared objective.” Given the level of control that can be achieved with this technological swamp, collective control over mankind may just be the shared objective.
This Pax Silica is a “thing”. It is not a person or group that can be questioned or challenged. When “it” makes a decision or takes an action that is not representative of United States citizens, there is no place to file a complaint, challenge a decision, or vote someone out of office. It is a pure form of technocracy where decisions are made based on technological needs. Rather than digital sovereignty, perhaps it should be called “technological sovereignty“.
As Patrick Wood suggests, Pax Silica is just another acceleration towards you owning nothing. It is a guaranteed infrastructure that will firm up the technocratic control grid. With this huge pile of data, even the most sophisticated computers are stressed. Quantum computing is perhaps the final tool needed to have the capability of analyzing all of this data. With Trump’s executive order, Next Frontier of Quantum Innovation, it enables his technocratic buddies to develop “quantum-enabling technology” as a U.S. leader in quantum technology. His second executive order addresses the anticipated need for protecting this technology, just like Pax Silica protects the goods and supply chains.
John Titus interviewed Iain Davis about his book, The Technocratic Dark State: Trump, AI, and Digital Dictatorship. Included in the discussion is this machine being created, those who are involved, which include technocrats and Trump, and where humanity is being taken. At the 1’15”:17 mark, Iain reflects that 2030, so often referenced in everything, is most likely the target date when the final takeover will happen, as the needed infrastructure has pretty much been put into place.
The Solari Report also has a timeline with information on what actions have been taken that accelerate the building of the control grid.
It is disheartening that a president is taking America down at such a rapid pace towards the worst trajectory possible into a technocratic state. His relationship with technocrats has essentially put them in charge of where America is now headed; he has turned over our government foundation as a Republic to corporatism, executed decisions that have circumvented citizen representation, and driven America into deeper debt doing it.
