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Kubernetes, Compliance, and Control: The Operational Backbone of AI Sovereignty
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Summary In this episode of the AI Engineering Podcast, Steven Watt, leader of the Office of the CTO at Red Hat, discusses practical paths to achieving AI sovereignty for organizations. He shares his two-decade experience in AI, highlighting how governments are building GPU platforms and protected data hubs to maintain control over AI workloads. Steve emphasizes why self-managed infrastructure is becoming a strategic necessity as companies outgrow cloud costs and require tighter control over models, data, and compliance. The conversation explores the operational substrate for AI sovereignty, including Kubernetes as the scale-out backbone for LLM serving, bridging the gap with PyTorch…