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The EU should build sovereign AI infrastructure to reduce dependence on US cloud providers.

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Renate Nikolay
Deputy Director General at the European Commission

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The European Commission strongly promotes secure digital communication infrastructures made in Europe, aiming to make the most of telco-edge-cloud convergence, with and for AI. The EU-funded project EURO-3C federates the efforts of a very large numbe... more Unverified source (2026)

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Francisco Mingorance
Secretary General of CISPE (Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe)

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A gigawatt of sovereign European cloud and AI infrastructure must mean investing in Europe's digital future and its strategic autonomy. Otherwise, Europe will simply deepen its dependence on overseas cloud giants. Unverified source (2026)

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Michał Kobosko
Polish MEP (Renew Europe), former journalist and media executive

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Recent geopolitical tensions show that the issue of Europe's digital sovereignty is of the utmost importance. [...] If we do not act now to reduce Europe's technological dependence on foreign actors, we run the risk of becoming a digital colony. Unverified source (2026)

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Christoph Strnadl
Chief Technology Officer at Gaia-X

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No US company can guarantee that the US government will never access your data. [...] If tomorrow a US administration decided to stop service delivery to Europe, everyone would be out of business. [...] Sovereignty does not mean you have to do everyt... more Unverified source (2026)

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Sebas Muriel Herrero
Chief Digital Officer of Telefónica

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Europe right now needs to invest in creating technology and not only using technology that provides us a lot of dependency on other providers from the United States or China. This is really important. Because in this new era, scale is important. [...... more Unverified source (2026)

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Ursula von der Leyen
President of the European Commission

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A European AI is essential for our future independence. [...] from the Cloud and AI Development Act to the Quantum Sandbox. Unverified source (2025)

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Abishur Prakash
Geopolitical strategist and author

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Until Europe builds its own servers, housing European AI that hundreds of millions of Europeans use (and choose), there is no sovereign AI. Unverified source (2025)

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Mark Boost
Founder & CEO of Civo

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The previous reliance on US-based companies to be the sole providers of our cloud and technological needs can no longer be taken as a given. Unverified source (2025)

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Oliver Grün
President, IT SME association BITMi

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Abhängigkeiten von den USA [...] abzubauen. KI-Gigafabriken [...] die KI-Wertschöpfung in Europa ankurbeln kann. (English translation: Europe should build sovereign AI infrastructure and reduce dependence on U.S. providers/technology.) Unverified source (2025)

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Friedrich Merz
German Federal Chancellor

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Wir werden hier auch Innovationen [...] im Bereich der sogenannten AI-Gigafactories. Wir sind [...] viel zu abhängig [...] aus den Vereinigten Staaten. (English translation: Europe should build AI “gigafactories” and reduce dependence on U.S. techn... more Unverified source (2025)

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Emmanuel Macron
President of France

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[...] our economy has entered the race for AI [...]. Europe doesn’t want to be the client [...] from the U.S. We clearly want to design our own solutions. Unverified source (2025)

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CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd.
Finnish state-owned IT center

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reducing critical dependencies on non-European hyperscalers. Europe must take decisive action [...] compute infrastructures and data centres [...] Cloud and AI Development Act. Unverified source (2025)

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Henna Virkkunen
EU Technology Commissioner

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We have identified AI [...] build our own capacity. We are willing to buy, but we need our own capacities. Unverified source (2025)

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Arthur Mensch
Mistral AI co-founder and CEO

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The infrastructure will therefore be "sovereign," said Mensch. Until now, the entities [...] AI-dedicated chips [...] cloud giants such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Unverified source (2025)

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Thierry Breton
EU internal market commissioner

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It must invest in research and critical infrastructure: sovereign cloud services [...] AI and algorithms [...] freeing ourselves [...] such as the US [...] Cloud Act. Unverified source (2025)

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European Commission
EU's executive body

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an excessive dependence on non-EU infrastructure [...] economic security risks [...] serve the AI [...] needs [...] essential [...] increase its current cloud and data centre capacity. Unverified source (2025)

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Jensen Huang
Nvidia cofounder and CEO

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It codifies your culture, your society's intelligence, your common sense, your history — you own your own data. Every country needs to own the production of their own intelligence. [...] Build your own AI. It's not that hard. Unverified source (2024)

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Francesca Bria
Innovation economist and digital policy expert

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Relying on external cloud services and AI capabilities means that sensitive data and strategic assets remain vulnerable [...] such as the US CLOUD Act. Unverified source (2024)

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Scaleway
European cloud and AI provider

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democratize access to generative AI. reducing dependence on non-European actors. Unlike with US or Asian providers, [...] your data stays in Europe. Unverified source (2024)

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Kent Walker
Google President of Global Affairs

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We deliver a lot of value to Europe. Erecting walls [...] would actually be counter-productive, If we have 190 countries [...] it’s very difficult to build software, Unverified source (2026)

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Zach Meyers
Director of research at CERRE

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trying to decouple wholesale from US cloud risks hurting European competitiveness more than it helps sovereignty. Unverified source (2025)

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