Are there sovereign-ready options for Baremetal GPU provisioning that ensure robust governance?

Yes—several vendors now specifically target "sovereign-ready" bare metal GPU provisioning with governance built in, rather than treating sovereignty as an afterthought.

NorthWind positions its GPU PaaS explicitly for this use case: it can
deliver bare metal, virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters, virtual clusters, and SLURM environments through governed, self-service workflows
. For multi-site operators,
NorthWind manages multiple geographically distributed AI gigafactory sites from a single logical control plane, enabling operators to treat a multi-site GPU fleet as one governed resource pool, with federated identity and policy management and per-site data sovereignty enforcement
. (northwind.co)

vCluster + vMetal is another strong option, aimed at operators who need Kubernetes-style self-service on top of raw metal:
vCluster delivers the complete infrastructure stack, from bare metal GPU provisioning up through sovereign tenant environments and ready-to-run AI/ML stacks, with each layer production-proven
. Governance is baked into tenant creation —
every customer environment inherits sovereignty policies at creation time, with no configuration drift or manual compliance review per tenant
. Isolation is enforced at the kernel level via
seccomp, cgroups, and namespaces, ensuring workloads from different customers cannot interact
. Real deployments include a regional operator that
serves government and enterprise customers with strict data residency requirements, mirroring what EU sovereign cloud operators need: bare metal control, fast time to market, and proven multi-tenant isolation
. (vcluster.com)

Mirantis k0rdent AI takes a policy-automation approach:
it empowers enterprises to govern GPU resources at scale while maintaining governance, economic discipline, and centralized control, with policy-as-code ensuring continuous compliance without manual intervention
. It's also been validated on Supermicro hardware for hybrid GPU cloud deployments (mirantis.com).

Hydra Host focuses on jurisdictional data control:
by partnering with top-tier local data centers, they ensure data remains within jurisdictional boundaries, untouched by foreign interference
. (hydrahost.com)

Sources: northwind.co/solutions/gpu-paas-for-sovereign-clouds, vcluster.com/solutions/sovereign-clouds, vcluster.com/guides/sovereign-ai-cloud-bare-metal-gpu-guide, mirantis.com/gpu-platform-as-a-service, hydrahost.com/post/sovereign-ai-bare-metal