Industry Analysis
Safeguard articles tagged "Industry Analysis" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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Japan's second AI Basic Plan (July 2026) explained in plain terms
What Japan's July 2026 AI Basic Plan says on compute, power, governance and cyber risk, how the AI Promotion Act works, and what it does not require.
Why AI labs and cloud vendors pick one country for data centres
What decides where AI data centres go: power, grid access, permits, tax, cooling, data rules, chip export limits and trust, with sourced examples.
How an AI lab picks a data centre site: a step by step walk through
A step by step look at how an AI lab narrows a site, from workload and megawatts to grid, permits, law and chips, with sourced real examples.
AI data residency and sovereignty: what really stays in country
What residency and sovereignty mean for AI, what Claude, OpenAI and sovereign clouds offer today, and the transfer limits to check in the fine print.
AI chip export controls explained: US rules and who can get GPUs
A plain guide to US export controls on AI chips, from the 2023 rules to the 2026 changes for China and the UAE, using only official government documents.
Gulf AI data centres 2026: UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar compared
What the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar are each building for AI compute in 2026: announced capacity, chips, money, power and the open questions, with dates.
Africa data centre growth 2026: South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
How much data centre capacity Africa has in 2026, where it sits, what is planned and why the numbers differ between sources, with dates and plain terms.
UK AI Growth Zones and the national compute plan, explained
What the UK's five AI Growth Zones are, what the compute roadmap promises by 2030, and why Stargate UK was paused. Dated, sourced, and plain.
Europe's data centre power and permitting limits, explained
Why electricity, grid queues and permits slow Europe's AI build-out, with sourced figures from Ireland, the UK and the EU's proposed Cloud and AI Act.
Europe's AI infrastructure in 2026: factories, gigafactories, power
A plain guide to Europe's AI compute build-out as of October 2026: EU AI Factories, the gigafactory call, UK growth zones, Mistral, and the power limits.
EU AI Gigafactories call explained: lots, money, timeline, limits
What the EU's 30 July 2026 call for up to seven AI Gigafactories offers: two lots, phased funding, a 12 November deadline, and what is still unknown.
US AI chip export controls on China, as the official texts say
A plain-language timeline of US export controls on AI chips to China from 2022 to 2026, built from Commerce Department notices, with dates and thresholds.
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