Can't imagine the size of brown envelope. Handing over your entire nation's thoughts to a foreign company operating under US Cloud Act in normal circumstances would be considered a risk to national security. Why not invest in home grown talent and companies?
Worse than that, it's bi-directional. The model's responses and tuning now influences a whole nation of people.
Malta is the size of a small city, I don't think national security or investing into home grown companies comes into play here.