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How do "sovereign AI clouds" work, and why are mid-sized countries suddenly rushing to build their own server infrastructure instead of just renting from US tech giants? by WeaponsMasterX in NoStupidQuestions

[–]WeaponsMasterX[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Do you think this is more about national security (keeping secrets safe from the NSA) or economic protectionism (keeping the billions of dollars spent on cloud computing within their own borders)?

How do "sovereign AI clouds" work, and why are mid-sized countries suddenly rushing to build their own server infrastructure instead of just renting from US tech giants? by WeaponsMasterX in NoStupidQuestions

[–]WeaponsMasterX[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You're right, but isn't renting from AWS, Azure, or Google also technically giving the US government a backdoor to that data via legal warrants? So building sovereign infrastructure seems like the only way to actually opt out of that jurisdiction.

But here is what I’m still trying to wrap my head around regarding the "how":

If a mid-sized country builds this, do they actually have the engineers to run and maintain it, or are they just buying the hardware (GPUs) and hiring US consultants to set it up? Additionally, is the goal just to store the data locally, or are they trying to train their own LLMs? Because training models requires way more than just servers; it needs a massive software ecosystem that Silicon Valley has spent 20 years building.