A country that depends on overseas capacity for its AI models, whether they run its public services or its defence, is exposed to an outage at a facility on another continent, to a host government that changes the terms of access, and to its own data being held under another jurisdiction's law. However, the measure taken to protect against those exposures carries a counter-risk of its own. Building computing capacity only relocates the risk on the environment since every facility depends on domestic water supply, grid connection and the consent of the neighbouring communities.