To Lead in AI, the US and South Korea Need to Trust Each Other's Clouds

South Korea aims to become a global AI leader alongside the US but faces challenges in cloud infrastructure access due to its strict data localization and security rules, delaying public sector cloud adoption. The US and South Korea have agreed to reduce barriers to trusted, privacy-preserving cloud services, yet need to implement security-based rather than location-based provider certification to fully enable AI growth.

This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of AI Infrastructure.