Niaga AWANI: AI, data and national security in a fragmented world

As artificial intelligence accelerates global demand for data centres, questions around data sovereignty, national security, and geopolitical trust are becoming increasingly complex. In this conversation, Guillermo Christensen, Partner at K&L Gates and a national security law practitioner, unpacks why data localisation alone may not deliver the security governments expect and what truly matters when countries like Malaysia host global and foreign data infrastructure.