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DATA SOVEREIGNTY AS A DESIGN PRINCIPLE FOR DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Mark Pestridge, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Telehouse Europe; Sami Slim, CEO, Telehouse France and Takeyuki Yanagisawa, General Manager, Telehouse Business Planning Department, KDDI, on how data sovereignty is reshaping the design, governance and operation of digital infrastructure across global markets.
As digital ecosystems expand, data sovereignty has become a defining consideration in how infrastructure is built and governed. For enterprises, the challenge lies in finding the right balance. Infrastructure must enable global collaboration while respecting local laws, ensuring innovation can continue within data residency and transfer boundaries.
The balance is increasingly being tested, as a growing number of regulators across Europe have imposed billions of euros in penalties for breaches of data protection and data sovereignty rules since GDPR enforcement began, with annual totals now often climbing into the high hundreds of millions.
Authorities in North America, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Middle East are following suit, strengthening privacy frameworks and tightening control of crossborder data flows.
Infrastructure decisions are no longer purely technical. They are shaped by regulatory and geopolitical factors, raising the bar for data centre operators. www. intelligentcio. com
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