Your data is in Europe. Your technology still isn’t sovereign
On 12 June, thousands of organizations discovered an uncomfortable truth about the AI tools they had started building into their businesses. They didn’t have control over it.
The US government issued an export-control directive affecting two Anthropic models. Anthropic responded by disabling them for every customer. The restrictions were later lifted, but that is hardly reassuring. Access disappeared and then reappeared because of decisions customers neither made nor controlled.
Founder of Cycloid.
It’s a wake-up call that many claimed that they had after the Cloudflare outage… or the CrowdStrike outage… or Meta’s… or AWS’… or so on… And yet we were met with predictable surprise amongst an industry that has been so afraid of having potentially uncomfortable conversations around digital sovereignty.
We often talk about data-center locations, regional availability and compliance certificates. We discuss whether the server sits in York or New York, then congratulate ourselves for making a sovereign...
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