2026 Governance Emerging
Geopatriation
What Gartner Predicted
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Moving workloads and data from global public clouds to localized or sovereign infrastructure to comply with data residency laws and mitigate geopolitical risks. Gartner predicts by 2030, over 75% of European and Middle Eastern enterprises will geopatriate workloads.
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Prediction Accuracy
TBD
Too early to score — EU data sovereignty regulations and geopolitical tensions are driving interest, but migration from hyperscaler clouds is slow and costly.