The government must rethink its technological strategy so that the UK does not lose control of its digital infrastructure and data subsequently potential geopolitical events, calls for the internal supplier of CIVO clouds.
Published on September 30, 2025. The agenda of the technical sovereignty Civo talks about the seven principles of a high level to help rethink the government’s technical strategy, with a special emphasis on protection and Education of the homegrown technical ecosystem of Great BritainField
In the current form, the government An attempt to make the UK Super Toward of Artificial Intelligence (AI) – With plans quickly expand the sovereign computing capabilities of the country And create AI growth zones To facilitate the construction of new data processing centers – with Mass investments for the main cloud infrastructure coming from MicrosoftIN Google And Amazon Web Services (AWS) still.
In this context, the CIVO call to the new approach follows warnings from observing the competition of Great Britain, competition management and markets (CMA), which ended At the end of July 2025, Microsoft and AWS should face “targeted and customized” interventions in order to curb the behavior of these companies.
It is also suitable for the heels of senior Microsoft employees Having accepted to the Senate of France in June 2025 that the company cannot guarantee the sovereignty of European data stored and processed in its services, and Revelations published by Computer Weekly that the data of the UK SECTORI, posted in the cloud infrastructure of Microsoft, can be processed in more than 100 countries.
Thus, the principles set forth by Civo include “sovereign purchases” to allow suppliers belonging to the operated priorities priority for highly sensitive workloads of infrastructure; “Transparent investments” to make sure that there is supervision of what is provided behind foreign investment; “Sustainability first” to make multiple agreements obligatory for critical national infrastructure; And “data protection” to make sure that there are clear protection measures that protect Great Britain data from foreign jurisdictions.
Other principles are focused on creating a highlighted “homegrown support” for British technical companies; The creation of the “partnership of equal” to guarantee economic value is maintained by the UK, and is not lost due to the pure outflow of capital; And the creation of the possibilities of a “sovereign cloud” as a priority of national security.
Cloud provider claims that During the growing geopolitical uncertaintyIt is vital that the national states seek to attract stability to their digital infrastructure.
Selection The importance of storing data and jurisdictions that can access itCivo added that discussions about digital sovereignty should not be limited to problems in the physical geography of data centers, and should also cover the issues of control, trust and access.
Responding to a survey from Civo -The results of which were published in June 2025-83% of IT leaders in the UK stated that they are worried that geopolitical developments can affect their ability to control and gain access to their data, while 61% of people who make decisions now consider data sovereignty as a strategic priority.
The survey also determined the gap in visibility, and only 35% of respondents said that they have a complete picture of the jurisdiction where their organizations are posted.
In particular, in the UK, the first government Analysis of chronic risksPublished in July 2025 by the office of the office, noted that “the growing dominance of a limited group of service providers creates the risks of addiction”, including vulnerabilities, financial, financial and safe, as well as limiting market innovations and customer selection.
The analysis also contains separate results of the “Cloud Service Market Research”, which shows that from 70% to 90% of the British cloud computing market, only two suppliers, Microsoft and AWS prevail.
Published on July 31, 2025, that the investigation came to the conclusion that “competition does not work well” in the British cloud market.
In accordance with fears about where the data of Great Britain is stored and available, Computer Weekly reported At the end of August 2025, Microsoft refused to transmit important information about its data flows to Scottish police bodies, while recognizing that it cannot guarantee the sovereignty of data held and processed within the framework of its Office 365 infrastructure.
At the end of September The computer was opened weekly -In the rear of the analysis of the Microsoft distributed documentation on the Internet conducted by the independent security consultant by Owen Seiers, what's the staff or contractors of Microsoft can remotely receive Office 365 data from 105 different countries using 148 different transcendessors.
This includes a wide range of countries without any agreements on adequacy in the UK or European data, including China.
Although the documentation, which is buried on non-indexed, inaccessible web pages, appeared in the context of a computer weekly investigation of the use of the cloud, the question of ordinary data transmission in the cloud architecture of Microsoft affects the entire government and public sector of Great Britain, which are required G-cloud And terrace Freimvorki remain in the UK to ensure default data.
“Our program of the sovereignty of technical sovereignty is a call to action to take advantage of the possibilities of British technologies. In recent months in the UK, we have observed a lot of investments – all good news. We need more is the recognition that the British technological future cannot be completely transferred abroad, ”said Civil Boost CEO.
“This is too important, and we have too much to offer at home. We need to collect the best of the global technology with a prosperous homegrown sovereign technical ecosystem, protecting our digital infrastructure from excessive right to several foreign firms and providing Great Britain with the opportunity to prosper on their own conditions in this courageous world. ”
