When a social media company's data center was declared "sovereign territory" by a small island nation, it exposed a new frontier: digital embassies. We investigate how tech corporations are using archaic diplomatic protocols to shield data from regulation, taxes, and law enforcement.

Tracing this legal loophole from a Caribbean atoll to boardrooms in Silicon Valley, we explore the rise of "corporate sovereignty." Can a server farm have more legal protection than the citizens whose data it holds? The answer is reshaping global power.