🇿🇦 English, 26 October 2026, sovereign AI
Geopolitical tensions drive demand for local cloud hosting and sovereign AI
Businesses seek to reduce reliance on foreign tech providers due to geopolitical uncertainty
Geopolitical uncertainty is prompting organisations to rethink where their data and artificial intelligence (AI) models reside, increasing interest in local cloud hosting and sovereign AI.
Altron has seen more demand for local cloud hosting, and its AI factory, a sovereign AI platform, lets businesses build AI models at rand-based pricing that is not dependent on the West or the East.
The African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council (PSC) warns that dependence on external AI providers creates risks around data control and ownership, and Africa risks regulating AI it doesn’t own, from infrastructure it cannot build.