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Straight talk on sovereign AI.

In-depth, honest pieces on sovereignty, the real cost of cloud AI, and the economics of owning your hardware.

15 articles

Frankfurt hosting isn't sovereignty

A datacenter in Germany sounds safe. But the US CLOUD Act doesn't care about geography - only ownership. What digital sovereignty really means, and how to test for it.

Economics7 min read

The hidden toll of cloud AI

The quoted GPU rate isn't the real price. Egress, per-call tolls, and idle time quietly add up to a multiple - and tip the math against the cloud.

Buy to rent7 min read

Buy to rent: AI hardware that pays for itself

Don't need the compute yourself? Own the server, we rent it out - and it pays you back. How a hands-off, EU-based infrastructure investment works.

Sovereignty9 min read

Self-hosting LLMs in Europe: the complete guide

Why and how European teams run large language models on their own hardware - the sovereignty, cost, and control case, and what you need to start.

Compliance8 min read

The EU AI Act, explained for AI teams

A plain-language tour of the EU AI Act for people building with AI - risk tiers, what changes for your product, and how infrastructure choices affect compliance.

Compliance7 min read

GDPR and AI training data: what you can and can't do

Using personal data to train or fine-tune AI under GDPR - lawful bases, the tricky parts, and how to keep training data in-jurisdiction.

Hardware9 min read

How to choose an 8-GPU AI server (2026 buyer's guide)

GPUs, VRAM, CPU, memory, storage, power and cooling - how to spec an 8-GPU server that fits your workload without overpaying.

Hardware8 min read

RTX 5090 vs RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell vs H200: picking your GPU

A practical comparison of three popular AI accelerators - VRAM, performance, cost, and which workloads each one wins.

Hosting8 min read

Cloud vs colocation vs on-prem for AI compute

The three ways to run AI hardware - rented cloud, colocated owned servers, and on-prem - compared on cost, control, sovereignty, and effort.

Economics8 min read

AI server total cost of ownership: the full breakdown

What an AI server really costs over its life - hardware, hosting, power, maintenance - and how it compares to renting the same compute.

Compliance9 min read

Schrems II: why EU data shouldn't sit on US servers

The CJEU struck down Privacy Shield and tightened the rules on standard contractual clauses. For AI workloads it means one thing: send personal data to a US-controlled provider and the risk is yours. What Schrems II means in practice - and the only clean way around it.

Guide10 min read

Running Llama, Mistral and DeepSeek on your own GPU server

Open models are good enough for real work - and you can host them yourself. Which model fits which GPU, which serving stack to use, and what actually matters for throughput, quantization and context.

Hardware8 min read

Power and cooling: what an 8-GPU AI server really needs

Eight GPUs aren't the problem - their heat is. Why an AI server doesn't belong in an office, how much power it really draws, and what a real datacenter provides that four walls can't.

Economics8 min read

What renting out idle GPUs on Vast.ai actually pays

Your AI server isn't at full load around the clock. In the idle hours you can rent its GPUs out on a marketplace like Vast.ai. How the model works, what it realistically pays, and where the catches are.

Compliance9 min read

Sovereign AI for Europe's public sector and healthcare

Government bodies and hospitals process the most sensitive data there is - and sit under the strictest legal oversight. Why AI in these domains should run on sovereign, local infrastructure, and what that means in practice.