{"id":419970,"date":"2026-07-15T11:22:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextcloud.com\/?p=419970"},"modified":"2026-07-15T11:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:22:22","slug":"building-a-sovereign-ai-stack-what-it-actually-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextcloud.com\/fr\/blog\/building-a-sovereign-ai-stack-what-it-actually-takes\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a sovereign AI stack: What it actually takes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In 2025, McKinsey<\/u><\/a> surveyed 300 executives and officials to find that 71% see sovereign AI as no less than an \u201cexistential concern\u201d or \u201cstrategic imperative\u201d. Similarly, Deloitte has found that 83% of organizations surveyed in its 2026 \u201cState of AI in the Enterprise\u201d<\/u><\/a> report see sovereign AI as moderately important to their strategy. There is plenty of other evidence that sovereign AI is gaining traction globally, and it goes beyond business goals or data privacy matters. Geopolitics say hi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what is sovereign AI and how does one build a stack that works for their IT, keeping compliance in check while delivering practical confidence and, what it all started with, the new level of efficiency and productivity? Let\u2019s find out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nextcloud\u2019s sovereign AI assistant<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Nextcloud Assistant <\/a>is a sovereign, open source AI assistant.You choose where to host it, what models it should use, and which of its features you need. Content generation, AI agents, summaries in mail and chats, AI call transcriptions, and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Data sovereignty and AI: <\/strong>C<\/strong>an you have both?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Governments are already backing sovereign AI with a lot of money. As Fortune<\/u><\/a> reports, in 2026 more than $100 billion goes into sovereign AI compute. Gartner, too, finds global sovereign AI one of the top trends in data and analytics in 2026<\/u><\/a>, and connects it with \u201ca nation-state\u2019s ambition to develop and use AI, without foreign assistance, for sovereign objectives, including global AI leadership and economic competition.\u201d According to the Sovereign AI Index by CNAS<\/u><\/a>, countries in the Middle East and East Asia account for more than 80 percent of all tracked and publicly disclosed sovereign AI investment worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is an opinion that the borderless cloud era is over<\/u><\/a>. Driven by data residency rules and supply chain risk, there\u2019s a shift toward domestic-first model selection, hosting, and procurement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nonetheless, there\u2019s an interesting paradox found by CNAS and refllected in their Sovereign AI Index: most sovereign AI projects depend heavily on foreign (and mostly U.S.) technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To decide whether truly sovereign AI is possible today, we need to understand what it actually means in practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is sovereign AI<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

McKinsey offers four dimensions to define the spectrum of sovereignty:<\/p>\n\n\n\n