Data sovereignty as a core principle for digital infrastructure design

Telehouse Europe, Telehouse France and KDDI emphasize that data sovereignty should be a core design principle for digital infrastructure.

• Main announcement/action: The authors call for infrastructure built for data sovereignty, advocating modular designs, carrier‑neutral, multi‑cloud environments, and adherence to recognized standards to provide flexibility, transparency and compliance; they cite regulatory drivers such as GDPR enforcement and the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) (applicable from January 2025) as immediate compliance requirements.
• Background and details: The article documents regional rules and standards: countries such as India, Vietnam, and Brazil mandate data residency/controlled transfers; France requires Health Data Hosting (HDS) with physical hosting in the EEA for personal health data; the UK has designated data centers as Critical National Infrastructure and is progressing the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill; Japan has tightened third‑country transfer restrictions alongside amendments to the Act on the Protection of Personal Information and the EU–Japan data arrangements. It also references ISO/IEC 27001 and 27701, NIST, NIS2, sustainability metrics (PUE, CUE, WUE), and readiness for high‑density AI workloads with liquid cooling.