Enterprises are increasingly looking beyond data residency when considering AI sovereignty.
September 8, 2026
As AI becomes an increasingly integral part of business processes, concerns around operational control, resilience, vendor concentration, and geopolitical risk are having a greater impact on how the technology is deployed. That’s according to Forrester’s latest report, The Top Trends in Sovereign AI.
Expanding on findings from the tech research firm’s recent Global Sovereignty Forecast, the report argues that sovereignty is shifting beyond questions of data residency and regulation toward business resilience, operational control and governance. For organizations, that does not necessarily mean cutting themselves off from global technology providers. Instead, but understanding where their dependencies lie, which workloads are most critical and how they could continue operating if access to a key AI service were disrupted.
In this Q&A, Dario Maisto, analyst at Forrester and author of the report, discusses how organizations can navigate these dependencies and what sovereign AI means in practice.
