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

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[–] Im_old@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] mtpender@piefed.social 4 points 17 hours ago

Smart move

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago

Good

[–] freeman@feddit.org 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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)

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

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.