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In recent years, a modest advance began to be observed in the consensus around the need to rebalance global power relations in the field of technology. The concept of “tech sovereignty” has gained prominence in the discourses of both governmental and international authorities. At the same time, new opportunities emerged for fiscal policies aimed at compensating countries for the extraction of their data by a handful of companies. Even though some of these demands remain largely rhetorical (with countries still granting benefits to the same companies for local resource exploitation), the alliance between Big Tech and the far-right U.S. government has devoted all its efforts to pushing them back.