{
 "title": "Cloud Repatriation 2026: The UK Sovereign AI Data Study",
 "url": "https://www.servnetuk.com/research/cloud-repatriation-sovereign-ai-index-uk-2026",
 "publisher": "Servnet Research",
 "license": "CC BY 4.0 — free to reuse with attribution",
 "collected": "2026-07-26",
 "records": [
  {
   "metric": "UK organisations planning to repatriate some or all workloads within two years",
   "value": "87%",
   "source": "Compare the Cloud"
  },
  {
   "metric": "UK mid-market companies planning to move some workloads out of public cloud within one year",
   "value": "97%",
   "source": "DatacenterDynamics"
  },
  {
   "metric": "Mid-market firms looking to move only a few applications",
   "value": "49%",
   "source": "DatacenterDynamics"
  },
  {
   "metric": "Mid-market firms planning a total public-cloud exit",
   "value": "5%",
   "source": "DatacenterDynamics"
  },
  {
   "metric": "Firms considering greater reliance on their own data centres",
   "value": "54%",
   "source": "Insurance Edge"
  },
  {
   "metric": "Firms assessing colocation",
   "value": "38%",
   "source": "Insurance Edge"
  },
  {
   "metric": "Firms moving AI data to UK-only jurisdictions",
   "value": "93%",
   "source": "TechBytes"
  },
  {
   "metric": "Three-year TCO advantage for owned hardware over renting, high-utilization workloads",
   "value": "40% to 60% lower",
   "source": "TechBytes"
  },
  {
   "metric": "UK organisations that had already repatriated half or more of cloud workloads",
   "value": "25%",
   "source": "Byteiota"
  },
  {
   "metric": "Organisations moving their entire portfolio",
   "value": "8%",
   "source": "Byteiota"
  },
  {
   "metric": "Enterprises expecting to repatriate some compute or storage workloads in the next 12 months",
   "value": "around 80%",
   "source": "HostDime"
  },
  {
   "metric": "Enterprise IT leaders planning to shift at least one workload off public cloud",
   "value": "83%",
   "source": "HostDime"
  },
  {
   "metric": "Workloads already pulled back from public cloud into private or on-premises environments",
   "value": "roughly 20%",
   "source": "Volico"
  },
  {
   "metric": "IT leaders actively considering moving selected workloads out of public cloud",
   "value": "more than 69%",
   "source": "Volico"
  },
  {
   "metric": "Private cloud TCO advantage for steady-state workloads",
   "value": "40% to 50% lower",
   "source": "MRC Productivity"
  },
  {
   "metric": "UK data centres designated Critical National Infrastructure",
   "value": "2024",
   "source": "Insurance Edge"
  }
 ]
}