Norway’s Telenor is leading the sovereign AI trend sweeping across Europe and beyond. The operator operates under tight rules for digital infrastructure, under the requirements of Norway’s Security Act, and as a result, Telenor started its “sovereign” data center two years ago. We use quotation marks because the definition of sovereign is by no means standardized across the telco sector. In Telenor’s case, US chip giant Nvidia supplies some hardware for its sovereign AI data center. Notwithstanding, the telco had an early start on the sovereign data center game, and now has a product to bring to market, while most other European MNOs are just getting started on these plans. “Intelligence is becoming a national resource, just the same as…