The Globe and Mail reports in its Monday, Dec. 1, edition that countries that control their own computing infrastructure control their future. The Globe's guest columnist Ryan Grant writes that Canada does not. Supercomputers are the engines behind artificial intelligence, climate modelling, drug discovery, aerospace design and national security. Canada is blessed with world-class AI researchers. Too often, however, the fruits of their research are commercialized elsewhere. About 75 per cent of the intellectual property created in Canada is owned or monetized by foreign firms, due to a lack of infrastructure investment to retain local talent and ideas. Today, Canadian innovators depend on foreign cloud services. That means the data that fuels AI are trained and stored on infrastructure controlled by U.S. technology giants, which ultimately answer to the U.S. government. That is not sovereignty. Supercomputing is the electricity of the 21st century, vital for all industries and innovations. Other nations have been developing world-class supercomputers for decades. Today, Canada has a chance to catch up quickly thanks to a recent brain gain, as long as we scale effectively with the right resources.