Complete organizational ownership, control, and jurisdictional authority over processing infrastructure and workloads.
Compute Sovereignty is the principle that an organization must maintain full authority and operational control over its computing resources and the data processed on them.
A company that relies entirely on public cloud vendors gives up some compute sovereignty: it becomes dependent on external SLAs and subject to the laws of the vendor's jurisdiction.
Reclaiming compute sovereignty often requires on-premises data centers or dedicated private cloud infrastructure. Core business operations, especially Private AI inference, then stay insulated from vendor outages, vendor policy changes, and foreign data subpoenas.
See also On-Premises, Private AI, Digital Transformation and Enterprise Architecture.