In a move that speaks to the deepening entanglement of energy, sovereignty, and intelligence, Google has pledged €13 billion to build artificial intelligence infrastructure across Finland over the next two years. The commitment — one of the company's largest in Europe — pairs data center expansion with a nuclear power partnership, acknowledging that the ambitions of the AI age are inseparable from the question of where its electricity will come from. Finland, with its technical heritage and energy capacity, becomes both a practical choice and a symbolic one: a small northern nation positioned