Sovereign AI for Europe's public sector and healthcare

Few organizations handle data as sensitive as a hospital or a public authority: health records, social data, law enforcement, critical infrastructure. When AI is used there - to read scans, process applications, analyze cases - it runs on exactly that data. Where, and under whose law, that happens is not a technical footnote but a core legal question.

Why the cloud often rules itself out

Special categories of personal data under GDPR Article 9 - including health data - get heightened protection. Hand them to a US-controlled provider and Schrems II risk plus CLOUD Act exposure combine into a problem that's hard to document cleanly. Many public buyers now explicitly require processing under EU law alone.

What sovereign infrastructure actually delivers

Sovereignty here means: the hardware is owned by an EU company, sits in the EU, and is governed by EU law alone. There is no data exporter and no third-country importer. For a model working on patient or citizen data, that's the difference between a process that passes an audit and one that doesn't.

• Data stays in the jurisdiction - no transfer to third countries.
• Dedicated hardware instead of shared tenancy - clear separation and auditability.
• EU AI Act conformity from the start, including documentation and logging.
• A named, reachable operator - not an anonymous hyperscaler hotline.

On-prem or locally hosted

Some institutions must run the hardware in-house - for fully air-gapped systems, for instance. Others are better served by locally hosted, dedicated infrastructure in an EU datacenter: the same legal sovereignty, but without owning a machine room with its power, cooling and uptime burden. Both routes keep the data in the EU.

In the public sector, sovereignty isn't a marketing property - it's a procurement requirement.

Where VANAFTER fits

We build 8-GPU AI servers in the EU and run them locally in Munich, Brno and Košice - or deliver them for on-site operation. GDPR-native, EU AI Act ready, with dedicated access and a real point of contact. For authorities and hospitals that want to use AI without ever handing their data away.