Access to advanced computing is becoming a resource that states grant or deny like energy or finance, so sanctioned economies keep finding workarounds and controlling powers keep extending controls from chips to cloud services.
forming · confidence 40 · Emerging (watchlist) · tracking since October 29, 2026 · updated October 29, 2026
Russian companies are renting foreign data-center capacity as AI chip supplies shrink, and Russian purchases of foreign IT services rose 30% in the second quarter, according to the Bankrollo channel. A sanctioned economy is working around hardware controls through cloud access, the gap that would push controlling powers to extend restrictions to cloud services.
Supporting · October 29, 2026
Russian companies rent foreign data-center capacity as AI chip supplies shrink
Russian companies are renting foreign data-center capacity as AI chip supplies shrink, and Russian purchases of foreign IT services rose 30% in the second quarter, according to the Bankrollo channel. A sanctioned economy is working around hardware controls through cloud access, the gap that would push controlling powers to extend restrictions to cloud services.
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