Private cloud providers may be among the key beneficiaries of today’s generative AI gold rush as, once seemingly passé in favor of public cloud, CIOs are giving private clouds — either on-premises or hosted by a partner — a second look. At the center of this shift is increasing acknowledgement that to support AI workloads and to contain costs, enterprises long-term will land on a hybrid mix of public and private cloud. “With how fast things are changing in the data and cloud space, we believe in a hybrid model of cloud and data center strategy,” says Jim Stathopoulos, SVP and CIO of Sun Countr…