Sovereign AI Infrastructure Fabric

72-Core Xeon Gold Compute Server

The primary compute node features dual Intel Xeon Gold 6240 processors delivering 72 threads at 2.6GHz base clock with Turbo Boost to 3.9GHz. With 247GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory, the server provides massive headroom for concurrent AI model inference, vector database operations, and real-time analytics processing. The memory architecture supports a planned 192GB tmpfs RAM disk that will deliver 100x to 1000x performance improvements for database-intensive workloads.

Storage runs on mirrored SSDs with 464GB capacity providing enterprise-grade redundancy and consistent low-latency I/O. The ZFS filesystem adds checksumming, compression, and snapshot capabilities that eliminate silent data corruption — a critical requirement when storing trained model weights and vector embeddings that represent significant computational investment.

GPU-Accelerated TrueNAS Node

The secondary node runs TrueNAS Scale with an NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti featuring 16GB of VRAM, dedicated to GPU-accelerated inference tasks including image generation, video processing, and large language model serving. This node manages 14TB of NFS-shared model storage, making pre-trained weights instantly available to any service across the network without redundant downloads or storage duplication.

The 2.5Gb Ethernet backbone connecting both nodes ensures that model loading, inter-service communication, and data replication operate at speeds that eliminate network bottlenecks. Traefik reverse proxy handles intelligent request routing, SSL termination, and load balancing across all containerized services with automatic certificate management through Let's Encrypt integration.

Container Orchestration

Docker Compose manifests define the complete service topology with health checks, resource limits, restart policies, and dependency ordering. Portainer provides a web-based management interface for monitoring container status, viewing logs, and performing rolling updates without SSH access. Each service category — AI inference, databases, monitoring, and networking — lives in its own compose stack with shared Docker networks enabling secure inter-service communication.

Networking and Routing

Traefik serves as the edge router, handling SSL termination, automatic Let's Encrypt certificate renewal, and intelligent request routing based on hostname and path rules. Tailscale provides a zero-configuration mesh VPN that enables secure remote access to any service without exposing ports to the public internet. The combination delivers enterprise-grade networking without the complexity of traditional VPN appliances or firewall rule management.

Deployment, backup, and verification automation

Alerting and observability configuration

RAG pipeline and indexing utilities

OpenAI-compatible API gateway

Hardening and audit documentation

Service stack manifests and configs

Regulated Industries

Healthcare, financial services, and government agencies that require data residency guarantees and audit trails. On-premise AI inference means sensitive data never leaves the controlled environment while maintaining full compliance with HIPAA, SOC 2, and FedRAMP requirements.

AI-Native Startups

Companies building AI products that need to iterate rapidly on model selection and fine-tuning without per-token API costs eating into runway. The pluggable inference layer supports hot-swapping between Ollama, llama.cpp, and vLLM backends as model requirements evolve from prototype to production scale.

Research Labs

Academic and corporate research groups that need GPU compute for experiments without competing for shared cloud resources or waiting for quota approvals. Dedicated hardware with full root access enables rapid prototyping of novel architectures, dataset processing, and model evaluation pipelines.