Great respect for you using AI at home. I heavily use Grok Perplexity and chatGPT. How about this. 33% of the current Iran war is US AI vs Chinese AI.
Plus on the US side add in Israeli military AI, which must one of the worlds best. During this 6 week cease fire USA and Israel have been conducting max reconnaissance of Iran to find their hiding places for missiles drones fast-boats etc. All data is run through US and Israeli AI.
NVidia employs 2000 there at a research center
You have some fundamental misunderstandings about how AI is used in warfare. This is definitely not a contest between China's AI resources and our own. Adding more and more massive data centers all over the county would have little to no effect on war efforts. It just does not work that way.
There is no way to quantify a war as being “33% AI.” Military AI is not an independent combatant fighting another AI in a digital arena; it is software integrated into hardware (drones, cyber warfare, radar tracking, and satellite imagery analysis). While the US and China are locked in a tech cold war, China's involvement in Iranian military infrastructure is primarily through hardware sales, oil trade, and diplomatic backing—not deploying proprietary frontline military AIs to fight American algorithms.
Reconnaissance of Iran is constant, 365 days a year, via satellites, cyber espionage, and signals intelligence—it doesn't just spike because of a specific ceasefire window. More importantly, AI does not magically “find” everything. AI in reconnaissance is used for “computer vision”—scanning thousands of hours of satellite footage to flag changes in terrain or vehicle movements that human analysts might miss. Humans still verify the data.