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  • Sovereign cloud difficult in EUUK

    Geopolitical implications and polarisation are very much in people’s minds (inside and outside work). There is no avoiding discussions about the risks of relying on US inference providers, and the insularity of Europe regarding ownership of both core infrastructure and skilled resources is excruciatingly obvious to everyone even as they try to keep the business…

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  • A slide split in two. On the left, under a US flag, an AI-generated image of a suited man whose head is a dark storm cloud. On the right, under an EU flag, a Magritte-style painting of a suited man in a brown coat and orange tie whose head is a white cloud, in a sky full of clouds, one of them wearing a bowler hat.

    “Sovereign cloud” means “not US owned cloud”

    For the most part, “sovereign cloud” is a code word for “not running on US based clouds.” What most people skip is that the geography doesn’t matter. If your stuff runs on a US owned cloud, not matter where it actually runs, the US government can probably compel the cloud provider to get your data.…

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  • Question of sovereignty – debating what it means to keep control in the AI age

    This is a summary of Europe’s growing focus on AI and cloud sovereignty as a response to U.S. political volatility, vendor lock-in, and the operational risks posed by AI dependency. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Question of sovereignty – debating what it means to keep control in the AI age

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  • Europe’s Cloud Sovereignty Push Risks Driving Fragmentation, Not Security

    Argues the European Commission’s push to reduce dependence on foreign technology providers, aimed at preventing a foreign kill switch, risks producing a fragmented market, more confusion, and even greater consolidation among the major providers. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Europe’s Cloud Sovereignty Push Risks Driving Fragmentation, Not Security

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  • What people use sovereign cloud for, and why

    IDC survey data on sovereign cloud: more than half of organizations already use it, 72% say their interest has risen in the past six months, and 42% are now running AI workloads on sovereign infrastructure. Here’s what they’re using it for, what’s driving adoption, and where current offerings still fall short.

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  • Related to your interests, Thursday

    Why it was a Boston vacation. Europe set to treble sovereign cloud investment – “European spending on sovereign cloud infrastructure services is forecast to more than triple from 2025 to 2027 as geopolitical tension drives investment in homegrown services, according to Gartner.” More context: Sovereign Computing, panel – This was a great panel, very detailed…

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  • To have full sovereign IT, you need to build the software from the ground up. 🔗 two questions on software “sovereignty”

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    Sovereign cloud urgency.

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  • Canadians’ Health Data Needs Safeguarding Against Our Increasingly Hostile Neighbor – Maybe Trump drives a lot of sovereign cloud.

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  • Enterprise interest in sovereign cloud on the rise, survey – “In a poll of 1,000 enterprise leaders from 10 countries, including Australia, France, Germany, India, and the UK and US, 69% of respondents cited potential exposure to extra-territorial laws when using cloud as being a top concern.”

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