- The EU appears to be concerned about the resilience and continuity of US technologies amid ongoing tensions
- Data center capacity could triple in five to seven years thanks to streamlined processes
- The attack on sovereignty would also be mitigated thanks to a stricter framework
We are already experiencing years of antitrust investigations and strict regulation in the European Union, and critics have claimed that the Commission has imposed heavy fines and penalties on foreign technology providers to promote European technological sovereignty in recent years.
However, the European Commission has now gone further and will actively fund and promote European technological alternatives.
It comes amid growing geopolitical tensions and fears that the United States could restrict or suspend European access to critical digital infrastructure sold by American technology providers.
THE Financial Times reports a draft European strategy for technological sovereignty, which reveals that the EU wants to “reclaim its place in the global race for geoeconomic power”.
According to the proposal, the Cloud and AI Development Act could triple the capacity of EU data centers over the next five to seven years, with a focus on streamlining site selection processes.
Sovereignty risk assessments could also force the bloc’s member governments and other critical industries to identify and assess any hidden dependencies on U.S. software companies.
Europe also plans to end the so-called erosion of sovereignty, where big tech companies hide behind their European subsidiaries, through a four-step framework that assesses: who ultimately controls the company; the supply chain; AI model data processing; and the location and security of infrastructure.
According to the FTthe Commission presents the changes more as “strategic counterweights that strengthen Europe’s capacity to remain open to the world without compromising its interests and values”, rather than as an exercise in “isolation, protectionism or technological decoupling”.
Earlier in April, CISPE launched its Sovereign and Resilient Cloud Services Framework, designed to enable customers to verify the sovereign and resilience credentials of a cloud service provider.
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