As the US increases political pressure on Europe, it’s possible to imagine the continent losing access to key computing services.

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Europe's heavy reliance on US cloud computing providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud control ~70% of the market) creates vulnerability to service disruptions from technical failures, geopolitical disputes, or cyber-attacks. Recent outages from AWS and Cloudflare demonstrated this risk. European governments are responding by investing in digital sovereignty initiatives: Schleswig-Holstein replaced 70% of Microsoft licenses with open-source alternatives, France/Germany/Netherlands/Italy are developing sovereign digital platforms, and Sweden built its own collaboration system in domestic data centers. The EU is developing a cloud sovereignty framework and upcoming Cloud and AI Development Act to keep European data under European control, treating digital infrastructure as critically as physical infrastructure.

Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology

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