🤖 AI & Machine Learning

Aussie Engineer Builds Data-Sovereign AI API to Keep Sensitive Prompts from US Eyes

Tired of piping healthcare data to US servers? One Adelaide architect just flipped the script with NorthStar, a private AI inference API that locks your prompts inside Australia.

theAIcatchup Apr 10, 2026 3 min read
Adelaide server rack running NorthStar LLM API with Gemma3 inference on RTX A2000 GPU

⚡ Key Takeaways

  • NorthStar keeps AI prompts and data strictly within Australia using local hardware and Cloudflare edges. 𝕏
  • OpenAI-compatible with flat $29 AUD/month pricing, targeting regulated sectors like healthcare and finance. 𝕏
  • Open-source GitHub repo reveals a lean stack: Ollama, custom Node.js auth, Zero Trust tunneling. 𝕏
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