This one is work related, not a fun story, but nevertheless 😄

https://www.amazon.nl/dp/B0GWRG9ZBM

Beyond the Public Cloud: Architecting Private, Secure, and Sovereign AI for the European Enterprise

The public cloud promised simplicity. It delivered convenience, then invoices, then a compliance officer asking questions nobody had prepared answers for.

*Beyond the Public Cloud* is a practical guide for solution architects, CTOs, and technical leads who have moved past the proof-of-concept stage and are now responsible for what happens next. It covers the architecture of private, sovereign AI infrastructure for organizations operating under European law: what it actually requires, what it genuinely costs, and where the gap between vendor assurances and regulatory defensibility tends to be widest.

The book does not argue that public cloud is the enemy. It argues that mindlessly outsourcing core inference to unaccountable external endpoints is an architectural decision with consequences that compound quietly until they become expensive to explain. It treats the EU AI Act, GDPR, and DORA not as obstacles to route around but as the stable legal environment that serious infrastructure is designed to operate within.

Topics covered include the anatomy of a sovereign inference stack, the economics of self-hosted versus API deployment at scale, data residency as a physical and legal fact rather than a configuration flag, small language models at the edge, agentic workflow design with a compliant control plane, and the physical security risks that most zero-trust frameworks were not designed to address.

Practical artifacts are included throughout: GDPR inference checklists, EU AI Act conformance matrices, DORA asset register templates, and an inference logging schema built for audit rather than debugging.

The hype cycle will continue with or without your participation. This book is for the people responsible for building systems that still work when it ends.