Bare Metal: Breaking Up with Shared Compute

Soon, all AI workloads will demand the highest levels of performance and security—requirements that virtualized clouds increasingly struggle to meet. This talk introduces Bare Metal: physically isolated, purpose-built infrastructure granting direct access to raw compute power without layers of virtualization. We'll dissect this single-tenant architecture from A to Z, focusing on true data sovereignty through ownership and control of the entire supply chain end-to-end: data centers, GPUs, and networks. We'll also explore confidential compute and how to eliminate the leakage risks and "noisy neighbor" unpredictability common in shared environments. As a proof-of-concept, we'll showcase AI Sweden's "Svea" project, which leverages this sovereign infrastructure for public sector needs.