
Sovereign AI: Why Infrastructure, Not Just Policy, Will Decide Who Wins
Sovereign AI goes beyond mere policy and regulation, fundamentally relying on a nation's control over its AI infrastructure. Instead of just drafting laws, the critical question is "Who runs the AI stack?" If a country depends on third-party cloud platforms, its AI is considered "leased" rather than sovereign. Achieving true Sovereign AI necessitates robust domestic AI compute capacity, involving significant government and private sector investments in dedicated AI factories, supercomputing initiatives, and on-premise solutions. Nations globally, including Canada, the EU, France, Germany, Japan, India, and Singapore, are investing billions to build national AI supercomputers and data centres. On-premise AI infrastructure is crucial for reclaiming control, providing full data residency, preventing third-party telemetry leakage, and maintaining control over model versions. This ensures data remains within national borders, models are governed internally, and compute is hosted in secure, compliant environments. Uvation assists nations in implementing Sovereign AI with on-prem deployments, offering turnkey infrastructure and compliance stacks. Ultimately, sovereignty needs infrastructure.
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