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EU Seeks to Bar U.S. Tech Giants from Critical State Cloud Tenders, Leaked Documents Show

15d 14h ago by futurology.today/u/Lugh in futurology@futurology.today from digitalcxo.com

Smart move

Good

Yes, but https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/05/16/europe-built-sovereign-clouds-to-escape-us-control-then-forgot-about-the-processors/5237735

makes sense if you've read: https://www.itmagazine.ch/artikel/87259/Cloud_Act_in_Aktion_Microsoft_haendigt_Daten_von_Beamten_an_USA_aus.html(german)

German companies would absolutely love to be the cloud providers for Europe, but whenever a country allows another country to run their services in their cloud they are risking similar outcomes.

The solution is for every country that is capable to deploy these services themselves. If they are not capable, then they should work towards becoming so.