AI Sovereign Cloud - SCAN Cloud represents the latest in Neocloud technology - specialist AI Factories all based in the UK
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SCAN Cloud represents the latest in Neocloud technology - specialist AI Factories all based in the UK
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Optimised Cloud for AI Scale
SCAN provide a specialist, sovereign cloud solution for scale-up and scale-out AI infrastructure.
Our end-to-end service provides all of the necessary expertise to design, build, deploy and sustain large-scale AI infrastructure alongside the supporting functions to assist with commercial financing, multi-national logistics and making power reservations at suitable locations for an AI Factory deployment.
Total Data Sovereignty
Ensure your data stays within compliance and legislative borders and under your control. Our platform guarantees complete compliance with local data protection laws, giving you full visibility and authority over how your data is stored, processed and secured.
Private AI Infrastructure
Utilising secure connections between corporate networks or public cloud environments, hybrid cloud allows users to gain all the performance and flexibility of the cloud with none of the compromises, ensuring IP protection, security and full customisation.
Transparent & Auditable AI
Transcribe audio, extract text from images and analyse context.
Utilising NVIDIA Secure Computing and AI Governance solutions, know exactly how your AI model reaches its outcomes. From model training to inference, every step is logged, tracked and fully auditable. Build trust with explainable AI that meets ethical, legal and technical transparency requirements.
Interoperability Without Lock-In
Freedom to innovate, without any vendor traps or proprietary software. Our platform is built on open standards and APIs, enabling seamless integration with existing tools, hybrid infrastructures and your preferred AI frameworks, giving you long-term flexibility and leverage.
Build with Confidence
Partnering with SCAN to design, deploy, and service your AI factory ensures seamless integration of cutting-edge hardware with leading industry expertise. SCAN are the UK’s leader in AI solutions, from starting up to scaling up.
Our certified engineers and specialists meticulously design AI factories tailored specifically to your vision for utilising compute, from training large scale LLMs to running vast and complex CFD simulations. Our aim is to execute the deployments of your infrastructure at pace, making the most of your investment into a fast-moving hardware lifecycle.
FAQs
A sovereign cloud is a computing environment that ensures data is stored, processed, and managed entirely within a specific country or legal jurisdiction, complying with local data privacy laws and regulations.
Sovereign clouds are essential for organisations in regulated industries which must comply with strict requirements.
These include:
- Government and public sector – to protect citizen data and meet national regulations
- Healthcare – for secure patient data handling under laws like GDPR and the UK DPA
- Defence and security – to ensure sensitive data stays within national control
- Financial services – to meet compliance and data localisation requirements
- Legal and justice – for handling confidential cases and client information
- Critical infrastructure, such as energy, transport, and utilities, needs high-security environments
- Enterprises that want full control over business and customer data, free from foreign access risks
If data privacy, local jurisdiction, or regulatory compliance is a top priority, a sovereign cloud is often essential.
While public cloud services may store data across global data centres, sovereign clouds are designed to keep data within a specific nation or jurisdiction. They also enforce local operational control, ensuring only authorised personnel within that jurisdiction can access or manage the data.
Agentic AI is built on top of pretrained language models like GPT, which are trained on massive datasets to understand and generate human-like text. To become agentic, these models are further developed using prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and planning logic that enable goal-setting and task management.
In addition, agentic systems are trained or configured to interact with external tools and APIs, use memory to recall past actions, and adapt based on feedback.
- Data residency compliance
- Enhanced data privacy and control, making it easier to comply with sector-specific requirements, such as NHS Digital or ICO guidelines
- Protection against foreign jurisdiction and access laws, by limiting operational control and data access to local entities. Especially important for organisations with concerns over external surveillance or legal interference
- Alignment with national or sector-specific regulations (e.g., GDPR, UK DPA, EU CSRD)
- Improved trust for public sector and regulated industry use
- Improved data control and transparency
- Future-proofing against evolving regulations
Sovereign clouds offer additional layers of governance and legal protections, making them highly secure for sensitive workloads. While security depends on provider implementation, the legal safeguards are a key differentiator.
It is possible on a case by case basis, but when building on hyperscaler platforms, always perform due diligence on where the data will be stored and processed, and who has access to it.
Absolutely. Sovereign clouds can integrate with hybrid and multi-cloud environments, allowing organisations to balance compliance with scalability and agility, so long as data sovereignty rules are respected.
Not necessarily. GDPR requires adequate data protection, but a UK sovereign cloud simplifies compliance, especially for public sector bodies and highly regulated organisations that want guaranteed UK data residency and local control.
Migrating to a Sovereign Cloud doesn’t have to be complex, especially when you partner with Scan AI. Our expert team can help assess your current infrastructure, identify compliance requirements, and deliver a secure, efficient migration plan tailored to your organisation.
- Assessment and readiness check
- Custom Architecture and Design
- Secure Data Migration
- Optimisation & Ongoing Support
Check for:
- UK/EU-only data centres
- Local ownership or operations
- No access by non-local staff or foreign jurisdictions
- Full compliance with national legislation (e.g. UK DPA, NIS2, GDPR, etc.)
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