Governments across Europe, the Middle East and Asia are beginning to confront a problem that until recently sat largely in the background of digital policy: where, and under whose control, their most sensitive data is processed.For years, public-sector technology strategies relied heavily on external cloud providers and commercially developed software. That model delivered efficiency and scale. But as artificial intelligence becomes more deeply embedded in national security, infrastructure and economic systems, concerns about dependency are becoming more explicit.A growing number of policymakers now view AI infrastructure not simply as a technical choice, but as a matter of sovereignty.Among the companies…