Sovereign AI infrastructure · Australia
Run AI on hardware you control. Know where your data goes.
Long-form, sourced field guides for AI engineers and business owners: data sovereignty, local LLMs, GPU selection, power and cooling. Written for Australian law and Australian power points.
- 4long-form guides
- 10audit questions
- 4topics
- AUlaw and power, not US
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The guides
Each one is around 2,000 words, cites its primary sources and ends with a practical checklist or FAQ.
The US CLOUD Act and Australian data sovereignty: what 'hosted in Australia' really means
How 18 U.S.C. § 2713 reaches data held by US providers in Australian regions, how it meets the Privacy Act and APP 8, and a practical checklist.
Read the guideLocal LLM vs Azure OpenAI for Australian firms: data residency, cost and control
Deployment types, abuse monitoring, GPU memory sizing and a hybrid pattern that works.
Solving the power bottleneck in edge AI: PSU sizing for GPU inference servers
ATX 3.1 excursion limits, 12V-2x6, Australian 10 A outlets, UPS sizing and heat.
Enterprise vs consumer GPUs for LLM inference: a comparison matrix
RTX 5090 vs RTX PRO Blackwell and L40S: VRAM, bandwidth, ECC, power, cooling and licensing.
Topics
Four ways into the problem
Pick the question you're actually trying to answer.
Sovereignty
Who can compel access to your data, under which law, and what a realistic sovereignty posture looks like.
Architecture
Hosted APIs vs local models, data residency, hybrid patterns and where each workload belongs.
Power
PSU sizing, GPU power excursions, Australian outlets, UPS sizing and heat.
Compute
Choosing GPUs for inference: VRAM, bandwidth, ECC, cooling and licensing.
Why it matters
Your data travels as light through somebody's cables. Decide whose.
Every prompt, embedding and log line crosses networks and lands on hardware. The guides show you where, under which law, and what it costs to bring it closer.
Sovereignty Audit
How exposed is your AI stack?
Ten questions about where your prompts, embeddings, logs and keys live. You get a score out of 30, a result band and your weakest areas. Scoring runs entirely in your browser.
- About 3 minutes
- No sign-up; nothing sent unless you ask for a follow-up
- Each answer explains why it matters
From reading to running
Learn it here. Choose the hardware. Put it somewhere safe.
AI Hardware Lab is one of three Green Racks sites. Each guide links to the next step.
How we write
Sourced, Australian, and upfront about who we are
- Every factual claim links to a primary source: legislation, regulator guidance, vendor documentation or a spec sheet
- Written for Australian law (Privacy Act, APPs) and Australian conditions (10 A outlets, local tariffs)
- Published by Green Racks, and our own services are clearly marked
- Each guide shows the date it was checked
FAQ
About this site
Who publishes AI Hardware Lab?
Green Racks Pty Ltd, an Australian colocation and AI hosting operator. We say so on every page, and where a guide mentions our own services it is clearly marked.
Is this legal, financial or electrical advice?
No. The guides are general information, checked against the linked primary sources on the date shown. Take the sources to your lawyer, accountant or electrician before relying on them.
Does the Sovereignty Audit send my answers anywhere?
No. Scoring runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is sent unless you choose to submit the optional follow-up form at the end.
I found an error. Who do I tell?
Email [email protected] with the page and the source so it can be checked and corrected.
Not sure where to start?
Take the audit, then read the guide for your weakest area.
Ten questions, a score out of 30 and specific next steps. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you ask.