Advancing US-Aligned AI Infrastructure and Governance

Just two days after the President’s Executive Action on AI, China rolled out a 13-point Global Action Plan for AI Governance designed to shape international standards, build infrastructure, and steer regulation. The plan spans global compute and digital networks, cross-border data rules, open-source ecosystems, and public-sector adoption, all framed as multilateral cooperation. In practice, it aims to embed China’s governance model and technology stack, especially in emerging and developing markets.

Although the plan cites risk mitigation, talent development, data security, and open innovation, its real aim is geopolitical: extending Chinese influence across the AI value chain, from chips and compute to legal frameworks and standards. China is targeting emerging markets in Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and the Pacific, using its digital infrastructure exports to shape data governance, model access, and regulatory norms. The plan builds on China’s September 2024 AI Safety Governance Framework, which formalizes centralized control, digital sovereignty, and “open but controllable” innovation, and stands in clear contrast to the decentralized, pluralistic models favored by democracies.

At Armada, we are uniquely positioned to operationalize an alternative framework rooted in democratic values, sovereign compute, transparent AI governance, and secure, high-availability connectivity. We believe compute and connectivity should be global public infrastructure: decentralized, auditable, resilient, and deployed with respect for each nation’s data sovereignty and model autonomy. Our architecture, which is built around Armada Edge Platform (AEP) and Galleon modular data centers, offers sovereign, scalable, and secure AI infrastructure, enabling real-time processing, model execution, and observability even in disconnected or denied environments. AEP delivers end-to-end traceability, encrypted model provenance, and air-gapped deployment options that align with the compliance standards of public sector and commercial customers worldwide.

Armada’s distributed compute and connectivity network empowers democratic allies and underserved regions with a credible alternative to China’s vertically integrated AI stack. We provide the infrastructure to bridge the global AI divide, foster technical self-reliance, and promote trusted AI deployment in the world’s most contested geographies. As the contest for global AI influence intensifies, Armada is committed to supporting a transparent, secure, and sovereign AI future that aligns with the United States' strategic objectives and the values of the free world.

To provide a scalable, values-aligned alternative to China's expanding AI governance and infrastructure agenda, Armada is executing a series of strategic initiatives focused on democratizing compute, enabling AI sovereignty, and reinforcing the global AI policy framework of the United States and its allies:

1. Deploy energy-optimized AI microgrids: Armada will field compute microgrids that pair megawatt-scale Galleons with hybrid power like gas turbines, battery storage, nuclear microreactors, and renewables. Our recent whitepaper identifies more than 6 GW of stranded energy immediately ready for AI workloads. Integrated load shaping and thermal optimization ensure resilient AI infrastructure in off-grid or power-constrained regions.
2. Localized Compute and Data Sovereignty for Allies: Through AEP and Galleon, Armada provides full data residency, sovereign control of AI workflows, and transparent telemetry. Atlas—our connected asset-management software—offers observability into model behavior, data ingress/egress, asset workloads, and compute utilization. Our message is simple and consistent for all: your devices, your data, your models, your compute, your connectivity, and your applications. Armada simply connects, orchestrates, and secures them for you.
3. Air-gapped AI and Encrypted Provenance Pipelines: To support compliance with national AI laws, especially in defense, intelligence, and public sector environments, Armada enables secure, offline AI workflows. This includes air-gapped deployments, tamper-proof model lineage tracing, and cryptographically signed data ingestion pipelines that ensure full traceability even in disconnected or sovereign domains.
4. Partnership with Frontier Model Providers: We will actively develop technical and governance interfaces with U.S. and EU model providers, including OpenAI, xAI, and Anthropic. These integrations will allow for the deployment of foundation models with embedded policy constraints, inference guardrails, and policy-aligned usage controls for humanitarian, civic, and sovereign use cases.
5. Digital Democracy Infrastructure Deployment: In cooperation with partner governments, Armada will install Galleons in strategic regions such as Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America, offering a transparent, secure alternative to China’s digital infrastructure exports.
6. NIST and NATO-Aligned Compliance Stack: All AEP and Galleon deployments are engineered to conform to NIST and NATO interoperability standards, including zero-trust security, AI safety evaluation protocols, and secure data lifecycle operations. This provides a trusted counterweight to China's opaque, state-controlled, "open-but-controllable" AI frameworks.
7. AI Public Sector Modernization Corps: Working with allied governments, Armada will modernize public services like healthcare, law enforcement, education, utilities, and transportation, powered by sovereign, secure AI infrastructure. Galleons deliver compliance, observability, and governance without dependence on foreign platforms.

These initiatives form a technically grounded and geopolitically relevant strategy to counter China’s influence across the global AI ecosystem. By combining sovereign edge compute, enforceable governance, secure data operations, and transparent AI deployments, Armada is enabling globally trusted infrastructure for responsible AI innovation.

We proudly align our mission with U.S. and allied democratic values, advancing an AI future that is resilient, open, interoperable, secure, and sovereign. In this defining era, the United States and its partners have a singular opportunity to lead; not through control, but by enabling AI responsibly. America must win the AI race and ensure that the U.S. AI stack is the global gold standard.

Now is the moment to define the AI infrastructure of free and open societies. Let’s build it, together!