A diplomat signs a declaration at a long table in a State Department hall, joining a row of other delegates. Plain blue curtains and marble behind, no flags or emblems.

A great hydroelectric dam with rushing water beside mineral rocks, its power lines stretching off toward the horizon.

Power lines run from the dam to a new data center building at Yguazú, a small trickle of power starting to flow in.

The plain signed declaration, with no emblem, lies loose and unbound on the table, while the power cable to the data center glows brightly.

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Morning Brief · October 31st 2026

Paraguay joins Pax Silica and offers hydropower for "superintelligence infrastructure"

Paraguay signed the US-led Pax Silica declaration at the State Department on October 23rd, the 26th country to join the pact on AI chips, minerals and supply chains outside China's reach. The governments said Paraguay's minerals and hydropower would support "superintelligence infrastructure in the Americas," without naming projects or money. A day earlier the state utility ANDE signed a 15-year contract to supply up to 286 megawatts to a Kuntur AI data center at Yguazú, starting with 6 megawatts on December 1st.

The declaration binds no one. The power contract shows what Washington wants from smaller partners before the Trump-Xi meeting in Shenzhen on November 18th and 19th: cheap electricity for compute. Only a secondary source was opened. SourcesC

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CParaguay joins Pax Silica as 26th signatory (Rio Times)riotimesonline.com

This story ran in the Morning Brief of October 31st 2026.

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