• ISG research flagged a shift in UK enterprise infrastructure toward AI-native, sovereign private and hybrid cloud platforms as AI workloads scale.
• Report cited tighter sustainability requirements, energy constraints, economic pressure as key drivers reshaping data center and cloud sourcing decisions.
• Enterprises increasingly favor containerized modernization over maintaining legacy systems, seeking AI-ready foundations to cut technical debt.
• Sovereign infrastructure demand rose as generative AI moves into production, with firms aiming to keep sensitive data and models within the UK.
• Providers are expected to deliver resilient, modular infrastructure, with greater FinOps adoption, continuous availability, AIOps, MLOps, sustainable GPU-capable capacity.

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