data sovereignty
As execs tell Gartner they're looking local for cloud needs, will local vendors or US hyperscalers win out?
US vendors are offering clouds run exclusively by EU citizens to placate European customers.
Germany’s Federal Ministry of the Interior is backing OSS alternative "openDesk"
Those willing to comply with EU rules should "be able to operate without hindrance."
New parent company, EU staff, technical autonomy all on offer to keep concerns sedate.
Hosted in the Schwarz Group's data centres; client-side encryption with BYOK? Google Workspace goes native.
"National investment in compute capacity is a new economic imperative... countries are awakening to the need to invest in sovereign AI infrastructure" says Jensen Huang