TL;DRMacron and Modi are personally courting tech CEOs to secure AI infrastructure investment. Macron texted SoftBank’s Son to land a €75 billion data centre deal, and Modi secured $48 billion from Amazon after a direct meeting with CEO Jassy. The global race for AI infrastructure has become a contest of personal relationships. French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have emerged as its most aggressive practitioners, personally courting the heads of the world’s largest technology companies to secure data centre investments that will determine where the next generation of AI systems are trained and deployed. Their methods differ in...