The Case For Infrastructure Sovereignty
Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, April 8th, 2026
Engineering teams have stayed in the cloud for a decade because owning hardware used to mean owning the maintenance. The trade-off seemed simple. You pay a premium to offload the manual provisioning and operational toil associated with physical nodes.
However, the market is starting to realize that 2026 is not 2016. That's why companies like GEICO and 37signals are repatriating workloads from the cloud to save millions, driving a broader shift toward bare metal. While public cloud continues to dominate the market, bare metal is growing-and it's projected to continue growing at a faster rate than the public cloud. This momentum is driven by the performance demands of AI, machine learning, and HPC workloads, alongside the superior security and compliance offered by isolated infrastructure.