Civo November 2026 newsletter
Written by
Digital Marketing Executive at Civo
Written by
Digital Marketing Executive at Civo
October was a big month for Civo, with Starling and Behavox both choosing UK sovereign infrastructure for their AI and Civo Indonesia Region going live in Jakarta. Here is everything you might have missed.
Starling becomes the first bank to train an AI model on UK sovereign cloud
Starling is training a transactional foundation model on more than 15 billion anonymized transactions with support from NVIDIA, and it will be the first banking model trained and hosted within a UK sovereign cloud, running on Civo. The bank plans to put the model into production in early 2027, starting with improvements to its fraud detection and then extending to Starling Assistant, the UK’s first agentic AI financial assistant.
Behavox commits $8 million to UK GPU capacity
Behavox, the AI-native controls platform for financial institutions, has signed an $8 million commitment with Civo for dedicated GPU capacity in the United Kingdom, so that the sensitive customer data behind its AI compliance products can be processed in the UK. The commitment follows our unveiling of the first of 40 UK edge data centers in Hertfordshire.
Britain has the talent, so who owns the infrastructure?
In The Spark, Mark Boost sets out why we are building sovereign AI infrastructure in Britain, starting with 40 UK edge data centers designed around NVIDIA Vera Rubin and run on our own open stack under British control. Vera Rubin orders are open now, and the film and the interactive NVL72 digital twin are live at civo.com/unveiling.
Civo Indonesia Region is live
Arupa Cloud Nusantara and Civo have officially launched Civo Indonesia Region, a sovereign public cloud platform in Jakarta for Kubernetes and virtual machines, fully operated by Arupa within Indonesia so that customer data stays strictly under Indonesian jurisdiction.
Why haven’t UK organizations moved off the hyperscalers?
Drawing on our Digital Sovereignty Revolution 2026 research, Mark Boost argues that for many UK organizations the move off the hyperscalers has not stalled so much as never started, because someone in the room believes the UK region already solved the problem.
Who controls the AI running Britain’s schools?
Luke Jimenez, founder of LESSO AI, asks who owns the infrastructure behind classroom AI and who controls the models, at a time when four in five UK teachers already use AI for work.
Events
Civo Navigate India, 24 November 2026
Tuesday 24 November 2026 | Sheraton Grand Bengaluru Whitefield Hotel and Convention Center
Navigate India returns to Bengaluru in less than a month, with more than 30 speakers and hands-on workshops for over 1,000 engineers and technology leaders, and tickets are still available at ₹12,000.
→ Register for Navigate India 2026
Civo Navigate London, 27 September 2027
27 September 2027 | Convene 155 Bishopsgate, London
Our fifth Navigate London is confirmed for 27 September 2027, and because the event has sold out every year since launch, Super Early Bird tickets at £50 are available only until 14 December.
→ Get your Super Early Bird ticket
Civo Navigate London 2026 is now on demand
The talks from Civo Navigate London 2026 are now live, from the keynote and The Unveiling to panels on digital sovereignty and the future of AI. If you want somewhere to start, the Starling and Behavox sessions show what sovereign AI looks like for banking and compliance.
Digital Marketing Executive at Civo
Emma De Guzman is a Digital Marketing Executive at Civo, responsible for managing the company’s day-to-day digital marketing and content strategy. Her work includes overseeing blog content, thought leadership, product launch materials, and email campaigns, as well as managing social media across LinkedIn and X.
She also works closely with partners on co-marketing initiatives such as webinars, joint content, and customer case studies. In addition, Emma manages the Civo Write-For-Us program, working with external contributors and independent writers to review, edit, and publish technical tutorials and guides.
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