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Sunday Essay — Brazil's Sovereign AI Runs Through the Cell Tower

Brazil's sovereign-AI strategy is being built not by a chip fab or a frontier foundation model, but by a set of overlapping institutional decisions — spectrum obligations attached to 700 MHz licences, a state-cloud intermediation layer at Serpro, Telefônica Brasil's portable OpenShift platform, and a CPQD-led public-services model. The coherence is architectural rather than planned, and the cell tower is its load-bearing unit.