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On-Premise AI: The Shift Towards Self-Hosting and Data Sovereignty

Organizations increasingly adopt self-hosted AI to retain data sovereignty, control costs, and avoid vendor lock-in. Advances in local inference, open-weight models, and hardware optimization fuel this structural shift.

Detected: 2026-07-26 · Updated: 2026-07-26

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