As the tech economy expands, so does its appetite for natural resources: critical minerals, energy, land and water. The global AI ecosystem is dependent on minerals, primarily sourced from countries in the global south, that are essential to hardware production, energy infrastructure and deployment of AI systems. The emergence of generative AI has not only introduced new geopolitical dynamics but intensified long-standing tensions over access to the natural resources that power it, particularly between China and the United States. Join leading scholars in AI, geopolitics, infrastructure and resource extraction as they explore this pivotal moment. 

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