"As it stands, the government is attempting to make the UK an artificial intelligence (AI) superpower - with plans to rapidly expand the country's sovereign compute capacity and create AI growth zones to facilitate the building of new datacentres - with massive investments for the underlying cloud infrastructure coming from Microsoft, Google and Amazon Web Services (AWS) thus far."
"It also comes on the heels of senior Microsoft employees admitting to the French senate in June 2025 that the company cannot guarantee the sovereignty of European data stored and processed in its services, and revelations published by Computer Weekly that UK public sector data hosted in Microsoft's hyperscale cloud infrastructure could be processed in more than 100 countries."
Civo urges a reframed technology strategy to prevent loss of control over UK digital infrastructure and data during potential geopolitical fallout. The Tech Sovereignty Agenda proposes seven high-level principles focused on protecting and nurturing the UK homegrown tech ecosystem. Current AI ambitions include expanding sovereign compute capacity and creating AI growth zones, with major cloud investments coming from Microsoft, Google and AWS. The Competition and Markets Authority recommended targeted interventions against Microsoft and AWS for competition-harming behaviours. Senior Microsoft staff admitted inability to guarantee European data sovereignty, and reports indicated UK public sector data in Microsoft's cloud could be processed in over 100 countries.
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