Perspectives on European cloud sovereignty, migration strategy, and the evolving regulatory landscape.
2026-06-13 · 4 min read
On 12 June 2026, a US Commerce Department directive switched off two Anthropic AI models for every foreign national overnight. The model is not the point - the switch is. It has been thrown before, and the lesson for European companies is to map their exposure now.
Read the full article2026-06-11 · 3 min read
The European Parliament made Qwant its default search engine, US industry groups pushed back on the EU cloud sovereignty framework, Euro-Office 1.0 shipped with real support behind it, and a €3 billion AI campus is coming to Aragon. Sovereignty is becoming routine procurement behaviour.
Read the full article2026-06-09 · 7 min read
The EU's Cloud Sovereignty Framework gives 'digital sovereignty' a score for the first time. What began as a procurement tool for EU institutions is already shaping how regulated industries across Europe think about which workloads need to move - and where.
Read the full article2026-06-03 · 3 min read
Europe's cloud sovereignty rules are getting concrete: a leaked EU draft could bar US hyperscalers from critical public tenders, MEPs called out Microsoft lobbying in data centre law, the Commission published a sovereignty scoring framework, and SoftBank pledged €75 billion for French AI compute.
Read the full article2026-06-02 · 8 min read
Europe is attracting record AI infrastructure investment - SoftBank's €75 billion in France, Amazon's €33.7 billion in Spain, Google's €5.5 billion in Germany. But broader Europe holds only roughly 8% of global high-end AI compute. Announced capital and deployed sovereignty are not the same thing.
Read the full article2026-05-28 · 4 min read
The Tech Sovereignty Package landed on 27 May, and the gaps in it were visible within 48 hours. A Dutch acquisition block, the US cyber agency's own GovCloud keys left on GitHub for six months, an unaddressed silicon question, and an Indian consultancy claiming the sovereign label.
Read the full article2026-05-26 · 9 min read
The standard board-level assumption about leaving AWS, Azure, or GCP is that European clouds are bare-metal plus maybe Postgres. That assumption is two or three years out of date. Across 23 service categories, parity is closer than the procurement conversation assumes.
Read the full article2026-05-21 · 3 min read
The highlight this week is 27 May, when the Commission's twice-delayed Tech Sovereignty Package lands. Around it: leaked detail on US-cloud restrictions, CISPE pushback on CADA, DORA entering its validation phase, and Schleswig-Holstein at 80 percent off Microsoft.
Read the full article2026-05-18 · 8 min read
Most companies considering a move to European cloud frame it as a sovereignty decision. The cost side of the equation deserves a closer look - list prices put EU providers two to ten times below the hyperscalers on compute, storage, databases and egress.
Read the full article2026-05-14 · 10 min read
Most European organisations default to US hyperscalers because it's the path of least resistance. Digital sovereignty has stopped being a Brussels buzzword. An overview of five EU cloud providers - OVHcloud, Scaleway, Hetzner, STACKIT, UpCloud - and what each one is good for and where each one fits.
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