Europe Wants Cloud Sovereignty — Without Building the Cloud

Europe's cloud strategy now hinges on the European Commission's forthcoming Cloud and AI Development Act, which aims to give the bloc a shared, enforceable definition of "sovereign" and curb "sovereignty washing" by vendors claiming the label without the substance. Critics warn that open source is a licensing model, not an operating model, and that strict CADA tiers assuming a fully European-built stack would shut out the partnership model — EU operators blending local capability with proven non-EU technology — already delivering sovereign capability fastest. CADA's own roadmap assumes five to seven years to triple the EU's data-center capacity.

Source: Europe Wants Cloud Sovereignty — Without Building the Cloud — Politico Europe

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