A global healthcare cloud provider ensures AI workloads remain within borders while enabling secure medical imaging innovation
SYDNEY, Australia – August 25, 2026 – Equinix, the world’s digital infrastructure company, today announced sovereign healthcare cloud provider 3verest is using Equinix Fabric® Geo Zones to deliver sovereign AI infrastructure for healthcare organisations, helping ensure sensitive medical imaging data remains within national borders while enabling the adoption of AI.
Built on Equinix’s global digital infrastructure, 3verest provides sovereign cloud services to hospitals, medical imaging providers, healthcare technology vendors and government health organisations across Australia, the UK, Germany, the US, Canada and the European Union. As healthcare providers increasingly deploy AI to analyse medical imaging, 3verest is extending its platform globally to ensure not only that data remains in-country, but that AI inference, prompts and network traffic also remain within sovereign boundaries.
Unlike traditional cloud deployments that primarily focus on where data is stored, 3verest is addressing the next challenge for regulated industries: ensuring sovereignty throughout the entire AI lifecycle. By using Equinix Fabric Geo Zones, 3verest can enforce sovereignty at the network layer, ensuring traffic remains within approved geographic boundaries even during failover or rerouting events. Combined with Equinix’s global footprint of International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centres, the deployment enables 3verest to deliver sovereign AI environments that combine compliance, resilience and performance to its customers wherever they are.
Scott Crawford, Founder and CEO, 3verest, said: “Healthcare doesn’t need another cloud. It needs infrastructure built around sovereignty from the ground up. The industry has spent years asking where data is stored, but AI changes the question to where intelligence runs. Patient imaging, clinical prompts, and AI inference must remain inside the jurisdiction, not just the archive. Equinix gives us the global digital infrastructure to build sovereign healthcare clouds consistently across multiple countries, while Fabric Geo Zones extends those guarantees to the network itself. That means our customers can adopt AI with confidence, knowing sovereignty is designed into every layer of the platform, not added afterwards.”
Arun Dev, Vice President of Digital Interconnection, Equinix, said: “AI is fundamentally changing what sovereignty means. Organisations must now govern not only where data is stored, but how it moves between clouds, applications and AI services. Sovereignty cannot be a setting inside a single cloud. It must be enforced at the network layer across every provider and every connection. That’s exactly what Fabric Geo Zones delivers. 3verest demonstrates how healthcare organisations can embrace sovereign AI while maintaining the security, compliance and operational resilience required for highly regulated clinical environments. The same principle applies to other sovereignty-critical sectors, including financial services, where data control, regulatory compliance and operational continuity are equally non-negotiable.”
By combining Equinix’s carrier-neutral digital infrastructure with Fabric Geo Zones, 3verest can privately interconnect with healthcare providers, OEM partners and cloud services while maintaining jurisdictional controls over sensitive healthcare data.
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