What determines the cost of sovereign AI? A TCO framework with no sticker price

The cost of sovereign AI is set by five drivers you can model: hardware capacity, utilisation, operations, model maintenance and risk avoided. Over a multi-year horizon owned capacity changes the shape of the bill compared with metered cloud tokens, so cost is modelled, not quoted.Originally published at https://mickai.co.uk/articles/what-determines-the-cost-of-sovereign-ai. Mickai is a Sovereign Intelligence Operating System; the Open Audit Record signs every artificial intelligence action before it executes, post-quantum and offline-verifiable. 104 filed UK patent applications, Mickai LTD (Companies House 17166618).