Data Residency is Not Data Sovereignty
Standard "sovereign cloud" offerings provide geographic placement, not control.
This architectural limitation stalls AI projects.
Commercial "sovereign cloud" solutions provide data residency but retain control over encryption, operations, and legal terms. This creates isolated data pods, making unified AI impossible without complex, risky data transfers.
The Architectural Requirement for AI:
Effective AI requires integrated data access under defined governance.
Agentic AI
requires a governed environment to execute decisions safely.
AI Agents
require persistent, policy-enforced access to systems and data.
These capabilities cannot be retrofitted onto infrastructure designed for isolation. Sovereignty—technical control over data—is the prerequisite architecture.
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