Who Owns the Plug? - Full Video with Raju and Jon Reed

Sovereignty used to mean borders you could draw and defend. In the age of AI, the borders are invisible and already porous.

Cloud infrastructure, data flows, and foundational models are the new territory. And increasingly, it's companies, not countries, controlling them.

History has a lesson here: private control of trade routes and choke points never ends well for those who don't hold the keys.

The question isn't whether digital sovereignty matters. It's which nations act before it's fully ceded.

Let's revisit the first conversation in our new “Who Owns the Plug?” conversation series, featuring Zoho’s Chief Evangelist Raju Vegesna in dialogue with industry expert Jon Reed, of Diginomica, on data sovereignty. The full video is embedded below, which you can watch to answer these questions:

• What does real digital sovereignty look like when borders are invisible?
• Are we protecting the right thing, data location, or the knowledge that leaves with it?
• Can a nation build sovereign AI without full isolation?

Here's the entire episode: