The global economy and geopolitical stability increasingly depend on computing. From a macroeconomic standpoint, the GDPs of entire nations are now heavily reliant on centralized cloud providers, underscoring the world’s growing dependence on computing resources.

This reliance introduces critical vulnerabilities, creating chokepoints in the global economy. Disruptions in supply chains or internet infrastructure can halt the operations of entire nations. Additionally, the loss of data ownership has become an accepted trade-off.

Acurast directly addresses these challenges by leveraging every chip’s potential while ensuring users maintain full confidentiality over their data—all at a significantly reduced cost.

Moreover, AI demands vast computing power, consuming so much energy that some cloud providers are now constructing dedicated nuclear power plants. This talk explores how Acurast is poised to revolutionize the confidential computing industry, particularly in AI model training and inference.