UK Infrastructure Partnership Aims to Boost Digital Sovereignty and AI Capabilities

Cornerstone announced a partnership with Stonesthro, a UK-based edge cloud provider, and Zadara, a global leader in fully managed cloud services, to explore new ways of bringing compute and data closer to where they are created and used. The partnership aims to provide solutions for national challenges, from improving data sovereignty and security to supporting low-latency AI applications and strengthening the UK's digital backbone.

As demand for data-intensive and AI-driven services grows, organizations across sectors, including public sector, healthcare, finance and critical national infrastructure, face mounting pressure to balance latency, sovereignty, scalability and sustainability. By combining Cornerstone's national infrastructure, Stonesthro's sovereign edge capability and Zadara's cloud technology, the partnership will examine how edge computing can unlock new performance, sustainability and resilience benefits across industries.

The collaboration focuses on several key objectives including reducing latency by processing data closer to the source for faster, real-time insights. It supports sovereignty and compliance by ensuring data is governed under UK law while enabling scalability through flexible, distributed infrastructure that adapts to demand. The partnership also advances AI-readiness with NVIDIA GPU-optimised multi-tenant platform for emerging workloads and improves sustainability through more energy-efficient, lower-carbon edge deployment models.

Pat Coxen, CEO of Cornerstone, stated that this partnership brings together three complementary strengths: national infrastructure, digital innovation and artificial intelligence, to explore how the UK can build greater trust and resilience into its digital systems. Ashley Sellar, CEO of Stonesthro, emphasized that by combining the flexibility of edge with the assurance of UK sovereignty, there is an opportunity to redefine how organizations approach performance, compliance and sustainability in the cloud.

Yoram Novick, CEO of Zadara, added that the partnership enables UK organizations to build scalable and secure IT foundations that unlock the power of AI while ensuring resilience and digital sovereignty. The collaboration reflects a shared commitment to strengthening the UK's position as a leader in digital infrastructure, ensuring that the next generation of cloud and AI services are secure, scalable and sustainable by design. By uniting connectivity, compute and security at the edge, the three organizations will help create the conditions for a smarter, safer and more resilient digital future for the UK.