The topic of “digital sovereignty” is becoming increasingly important. In this context, there are now numerous efforts to develop large European language models in the field of AI. This automatically raises the question of which European solutions are being targeted in the cloud sector.
A few days ago, Dr. Christine Knackfuß-Nikolic from T-Systems published an interesting article on this subject.
According to the report, US cloud providers have a market share of over 70% in Europe, which means that they dictate the technological standards. It also means that these providers also have an influence on the economic and legal conditions under which customers operate. The author also describes the risk of sensitive company and customer data flowing out of Europe.
In order to avoid such dependencies and risks, the European Union is striving to create a networked, sovereign digital infrastructure from Europe for Europe with the EU umbrella initiative “8ra”. According to the article, cloud and edge technologies from various providers are to be combined on the basis of open standards. The aim here is to protect and strengthen European companies with the help of this “super cloud” by keeping sensitive data in their own data centers.
Here you will find a link to this interesting article:
