Sovereign AI Infrastructure

AI Inference at the edge.
Control at the root.

AI and cloud on a single sovereign platform. No hyperscaler dependency. No licensing rent. No foreign jurisdiction. Full operational control — from a single rack, anywhere on earth.

Maximum verified power draw — component-based

Autonomy Cloud
23.1 kW
Conventional AI
~117 kW
AI + Cloud combined
~256 kW
>11x lower maximum power draw than an equivalent conventional estate
0–50°C ambient operating range — standard cooling throughout

Physical footprint — like-for-like capability

1 Autonomy rack
AI + cloud converged
18 Conventional racks
AI and cloud separate

2 Rack power feeds in
a redundant pair
36 Rack power feeds :
18 racks × 2 each

5-year total cost of ownership — like-for-like

Autonomy cloud software (5yr) £0
Conventional VMware licensing (5yr) £9.4m+
5yr power cost saving ~87% lower
5yr TCO vs conventional ~27% lower
23.1 kW Maximum verified power draw AI + cloud combined: component-verified. Not an average — a ceiling.
0–50°C Ambient operating range. Standard rack air-cooling is sufficent. No dedicated cooling required.
SECRET US/UK/NATO proven in use. Designed and assured for the most demanding environments.
FROM 8RU Fits any standard 19″ rack PoP rooms, exchange facilities, constrained edge sites.
The observable differences

Four things you can measure.
Not just four things we claim.

All our figures are empirically derived — from component specifications, independent benchmarks, or operational deployments.
Nothing here is modelled on assumptions we don't publish.

Sovereignty

Data location isn't sovereignty.
The question is whose law governs your data, who can compel access to it, and whether your cloud operator answers to a foreign court (e.g. the CLOUD Act) - not where your data sits.
Autonomy Cloud gives you genuine jurisdictional control : not a contractual promise, an architectural fact.
Your own defined Domain of Control follows your data, wherever it sits in the infrastructure.

What genuine sovereignty requires →

Energy & Sustainability

A conventional AI GPU rack can draw 100 kW or more.
An Autonomy rack — running both AI inference and full cloud workloads — has a maximum draw of 23.1 kW : an achievable power envelope for most data centres.
Our hardware fits existing facilities, uses standard cooling infrastructure, and eliminates the dangerous data heat island effects recently identified to be caused by AI datacentres.
Autonomy is what truly sustainable AI and Cloud looks like.


The sustainability case

AI + Cloud Convergence

Every conventional vendor asks you to choose:
a dedicated AI estate, and a separate cloud platform. Two management stacks | Two compliance postures | Two power budgets. Autonomy Cloud runs LLM inference, computer vision, or custom AI workloads, plus several hundred cloud workloads simultaneously on the same hardware stack — same control plane, same governance, same rack : Twice the operating capability.

Platform architecture

Resilience by Design

Hyperscaler availability zones may sit in different data centres, but they share a centralised control plane. When it fails, every zone goes dark simultaneously.
Autonomy's Assured Decentralised Infrastructure works differently: each cluster operates independently, with no common control plane to fail. Resilient to intermittent connectivity and power outages; this is infrastructure that keeps working when everything else stops.

Resilience architecture
The cost reality

OpEx doesn't reduce the cost. It just hides it.

The appeal of OpEx pricing is real — no large upfront commitment, predictable monthly line items, easy board approval. What it obscures is that the cost doesn't go away. It compounds. Spread over five years, the conventional stack costs substantially more than Autonomy whether you finance it or not.

The question isn't CapEx versus OpEx. It's whether you want to own your infrastructure — and the data governance that comes with ownership — or pay indefinitely to rent it from someone else's jurisdiction.

The conventional estate's five-year software licensing bill alone exceeds the entire Autonomy platform price. You pay more in licences than Autonomy costs in total — and you still have no AI capability, no sovereignty, and no exit.

£0 Hypervisor or cloud software licensing
~27% Lower 5-year TCO vs conventional estate
11× less power Lower maximum power draw
Savings from day one
Year 3 Breakeven point is c.30 months
Autonomy has a cheaper 5yr TCO
Autonomy Cloud — 5yr TCO ~27% lower
Conventional (NVIDIA + Dell + VMware) baseline
Cost element (5yr) Autonomy Conventional
Software licensing £0 £9.4m+
Power costs ~87% lower baseline
Facility / colocation ~90% lower baseline
Staffing (FTE delta) ~10 fewer FTE baseline

Based on independently verified component specifications and published VMware VCSP v5.3 list pricing, March 2026. Like-for-like capability comparison. Full methodology available on request.

Who we work with

Built for those who can't afford to get this wrong.

Nations & Governments

Building national digital capability from the ground up. Protecting existing services from foreign legal reach. Deploying AI within standard power envelopes in facilities that conventional solutions can't reach. Creating resilient, always-on, cannot fail, Critical National Infrastructure. We have the architecture, the governance framework, and the deployment experience.

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Telecoms & Infrastructure Operators

Deploy sovereign AI inference at the edge — in PoP rooms, exchange facilities, and constrained environments globally.
Operate Autonomy Cloud for your customers under your own brand, your own governance, your own jurisdiction. From an 8 RU entry point to full-rack scale-out.
No hyperscaler dependency at any tier.

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Regulated Enterprises

Financial services, healthcare, defence supply chain, civil nuclear, legal —
if your data is regulated, your AI and cloud infrastructure needs to be too.
Autonomy Cloud gives you a fully governed, multi-tenant platform with an assurance model built around your obligations — not retrofitted onto a generic hyperscaler contract, or an additional responsibility you need to build bespoke and one time only.

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