Current US concerns revolve around the potential for China to dominate the infrastructure and sovereign data of emerging nations in Africa and the Middle East through artificial intelligence technologies. This conflict has manifested itself directly in Egypt, which has become the first arena for direct commercial and technological confrontation between the two powers through a government tender to establish an AI data center. Egypt’s telecommunications infrastructure makes it a crucial hub for connectivity in the region, Africa, the Middle East, and the Global South as a whole, as international submarine cables pass through it, linking various parts of the world….