New Delhi, Dec. 14 -- With each passing week, we're seeing new chapters being written as some of the world's biggest companies take on each other to make new headlines in AI. While much about AI is driven by headlines today, this week, Mint reported on one phenomenon that doesn't appear to be a fad-the rise of sovereign computing.

If you've been an active participant in the AI news cycle, you'd have recognized that I called it sovereign 'computing' and not sovereign 'cloud' or 'AI'. The reason for this is that for companies today, the general push is to break the sweeping connections of the internet into fragments and create air-gapped walls online.

This, to be sure, isn't just figurative. From physical data centre investments to laws a...