Data Localisation stories

UK grants Cosine 500,000 GPU hours on Isambard-AI as the London startup pushes to build Britain's fully sovereign coding model.

NCC Group says geopolitics, digital sovereignty and AI are driving tougher cyber rules, with boards facing greater accountability and scrutiny.

Manchester tech conference to probe AI governance, cyber defence and deepfake hiring as business leaders weigh trust, risk and customer experience.

Qlik unveils AI sovereignty initiative and ISO certification as it expands regional AWS deployments to help customers meet tighter data rules.

Insight says UK firms are losing cloud spend to waste as AI and sovereignty demands drive up infrastructure costs.

OpenText and S3NS launch a sovereign cloud service for Europe, offering regulated customers in France locally governed hosting with Google Cloud technology.

OpenText will put content, security and service management tools on AWS's European Sovereign Cloud, targeting EU customers with strict data rules.

GARR and Cubbit pilot Europe's first federated storage network for Italian universities, starting with 1 petabyte across data centres in Bologna, Rome and Bari.

Ecommerce in 2026: AI shoppers, social sales and returns pressure push retailers to rethink data, compliance and cross-border growth.

Rackspace names two senior leaders to drive private cloud operations and international growth as it targets enterprise AI demand.

Cloud2Me survey finds finance staff using AI daily, but worries mount over GDPR, data storage and compliance after disciplinaries.

Kelleher hails Limerick's role as ACI Worldwide marks decade of running European payments hub and data centre.

Leaseweb adds autoscaling, load balancing and developer tools to its European Cloud Campus as it pushes sovereign cloud build-out.

Norton Rose Fulbright warns that AI agents could intensify privacy and security challenges for Asian companies as data moves across systems and borders.

Siemens adds an on-premises monitoring tool for industrial drive systems, keeping vibration and condition data inside plants for stricter control.

DE-CIX has begun offering Google peering at its São Paulo and Rio exchanges, giving Brazilian ISPs direct local access to Google services.

Mobile money transactions topped USD $2 trillion in 2025 as global use surged, led by Sub-Saharan Africa but with growth across all regions.

RSA debuts ID Plus Sovereign Deployment, an identity platform for regulated sectors needing strict data residency and offline resilience.

Belgian legal tech group LEGALFLY unveils Agent Studio to automate in-house workflows and opens a new base in Mannheim, Germany.

SentinelOne is extending its on-premise security to air-gapped and self-hosted sites, promising AI protection without sacrificing data control.