Sovereignty Doesn't Add Up

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A cloud that passed the sovereignty test, storage that passed it, a model on top that passed it too. Each piece certified, so the sum must be too.

It isn’t necessarily. The sum may have parts no certificate covered – the pieces someone adds, the way they’re joined, the provider’s own dependencies, whoever operates the result. Any one of them can make the whole not sovereign. Sovereignty doesn’t add up from the parts.

Cloud-Architecture on Digital sovereignty, thought through

Sovereignty Doesn't Add Up