U.S. President Donald Trump’s past interest in Greenland has often been explained through its strategic military location, shipping routes and rare earth resources, a Turkish journalist suggests there may be a far deeper reason behind it.

According to Turkish journalist Afşın Topçu, Greenland is not just about minerals or Arctic geopolitics — it is about the future of artificial intelligence and digital power.

“Everyone talks about rare earth elements and Arctic shipping lanes, but these are not the real reason,” Topçu says. “We are entering the age of artificial intelligence, and whoever controls AI infrastructure will control the next century.”

The Hidden Cost of Artificial Intelligence

Topçu explains that AI systems require enormous amounts of computing power, which in turn creates one massive problem: cooling.

Modern AI data centers generate extreme heat. Cooling them already costs billions of dollars each year, and that cost will explode as AI systems expand over the next 20 to 30 years. Tech companies have even experimented with placing servers underwater to use ocean temperatures for cooling, but those projects failed to deliver the efficiency they hoped for.

This is where Greenland enters the equation.

“Greenland is a natural cooling machine,” Topçu argues. “Its climate is ideal for hosting massive AI data centers. You can cool servers there far more cheaply and far more efficiently than almost anywhere else on Earth.”

According to his analysis, placing future AI infrastructure in Greenland could save the United States tens of billions of dollars every year in energy and cooling costs.

Why Not Alaska?

Some may ask why the United States would need Greenland at all when it already has Alaska.

Topçu’s answer is security.

“Yes, Alaska could technically host the same systems,” he says. “But the level of security, isolation, and control that Greenland offers is far greater. Greenland is strategically positioned, easier to defend, and far less exposed to geopolitical and cyber threats.”

In other words, Greenland would not just be an AI hub — it would be a fortress for digital power.

A Future AI Capital

Topçu believes Greenland is on track to become the world’s central hub for artificial intelligence infrastructure.

“In the future, Greenland won’t be remembered just as a frozen island,” he says. “It will be remembered as the place where the world’s most powerful AI systems were built and operated.”

From this perspective, Trump’s interest in Greenland looks less like a strange political idea — and more like an early move in a long-term technological power game.