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El Salvador
El Salvador's May 2026 AI strategy centres on a sovereign data centre on geothermal power and a single AI regulator.
The 2026 national AI strategy, reported on 15 May 2026, creates a National AI Agency (ANIA) as a single regulator and promises a national sovereign data centre powered by geothermal and renewable energy, with a sovereign B300 GPU cluster. It states that hardware and foundation models should come from market-oriented economies. For someone seeking compute, these are announced intentions with no stated capacity or dates in the source.
AI policy and activity
Four pillars: innovation, sovereignty, human potential and abundance. The source is a single English-language outlet and gives no figures or partners.
Data centres and compute
| Site | Where | Status | Notes and source |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Sovereign Data Center Government of El Salvador | El Salvador | Planned | Described as running on geothermal and renewable power with a sovereign B300 cluster. No size, site or timetable given. (source) |
Rules and programmes
| Instrument | Kind | Status | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| National AI Strategy 2026 | Policy | In force from 15 May 2026 | News report of the unveiling. We did not read the official text. |
Checked on 2 October 2026 and due for review by 1 January 2027. Many sources are trade press or law-firm summaries rather than official texts, and statuses such as reported or unconfirmed are shown as the source gives them. This is a summary, not legal advice. If something is wrong or out of date, tell us.