Cork firm CloudCIX pushes sovereign AI as tech giants train models on user data

As Big Tech trains AI on European data, a Cork company is betting on sovereignty, regulation and keeping information at home

Jerry Sweeney, managing director and Karen O'Connell, financial director at the CloudCIX Boole Supercomputer based in Hollyhill, Cork, Ireland’s first liquid-cooled Nvidia B200 system.  Picture: Eddie O'Hare

While it may be free to use ChatGPT, that doesn’t mean it costs nothing. 

With every major tech company now boasting its own generative AI model, from Meta AI, X’s Grok, Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s Copilot, the race to have the best is heavily reliant on how they’re trained and the data that trains them. This is the price we pay for the service.