Why your code never leaves Europe

Data sovereignty, GDPR, and the EU AI Act — what they mean for code security, and why we run everything on our own hardware in Europe.

Most AI tools for code ship your source to someone else's cloud — often in the US, often to a model that may be trained further on what you send. For a hobby project, maybe that doesn't matter. For a bank, a public authority, or any company with business-critical code, it's a different story entirely.

What data sovereignty actually means

Data sovereignty is about who has legal control over your data — not just where the server happens to sit. The moment your code passes through a service under foreign jurisdiction, it can fall under another country's laws, regardless of what your contract says.

Your source code is among the most sensitive data you have. It describes exactly how your systems work — and where they're weak.

GDPR and the EU AI Act

For European organisations, "it's secure" isn't enough. You have to be able to show:

• GDPR: where data is processed, by whom, and that it isn't used for anything you didn't agree to.
• EU AI Act: that AI systems used in sensitive contexts meet the requirements for transparency, human oversight, and documentation.

A tool that sends your code to a black box on the other side of the Atlantic makes that documentation hard — sometimes impossible.

How we do it

Codelight runs its own models on its own hardware in Europe. Your code is processed in memory, never stored after the analysis, and never used to train our models.

Need even more control? We run the audit on-site at your premises — fully air-gapped, so your code never leaves your network.

Security shouldn't cost you control over your own code.

Learn more about how we handle your code →

Topics: #data-sovereignty #gdpr