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More and more, we are hearing how artificial intelligence is transforming how we build, secure, and share software. But as AI models become more powerful, questions around openness, security, and digital sovereignty are becoming harder to ignore. Can open models really be controlled? Is AI putting open-source communities under pressure? What does genuine technological independence look like? And who decides who gets access?

When people hear that Civo is building a gigawatt of AI capacity in the UK, they usually picture one thing. A vast campus in a field somewhere. Hundreds of thousands of GPUs under one roof. The kind of site that gets announced with a ministerial visit and a five-year timeline. We are doing the opposite. We are building 40 data centres, spread across the country, each one close to the people and organizations that will use it. On 22 September we unveiled the first one, in Hertfordshire.

October was a big month for Civo, with Starling and Behavox both choosing UK sovereign infrastructure for their AI and Civo Indonesia Region going live in Jakarta. Here is everything you might have missed.