Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
Who actually needs this, and who only thinks they do Somebody in a procurement meeting says the words "it has to be air-gapped", everybody nods, and eighteen months later a team is maintaining an isolated GPU cluster that nobody can patch quickly, running a model two generations behind, to satisfy a requirement that was never written down. This is the single most expensive misunderstanding in regulated AI delivery, and it is almost always avoidable by asking one question early: which specific obligation are we satisfying, and what does it actually demand? Full air-gap — no network path in or out, artefacts moved by a controlled physical or diode-based transfer — is rare, costly and slow. The far more common real requirement is an egress-restricted deployment: your own virtual private…
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