Where Should Your AI Live?

A short diagnostic for engineering and manufacturing SMEs: whether your AI should run on your own hardware, on Ascentis Private Compute, or in the cloud.

Where Should Your AI Live? — Ascentis AI
If the answer is your own infrastructure

You don’t have to buy and run the machine yourself

Ascentis Private Compute gives you the same privacy without the hardware estate: we invest in a dedicated machine for you, install and operate it, and run your system on it. It sits in your own country, and whether it is single-tenant or shared across a small number of projects we built is agreed with you and written into the contract. From £200 per month.

It is not a GPU cloud and we do not rent capacity: the machine exists to run the system we built for you, and nothing else. Talk to us · Read the build and cost guide

Further reading : Self-hosted AI vs cloud AI — the full comparison for engineering & manufacturing businesses

See also our 2026 self-hosted AI build, benchmark and cost guide.