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

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  Henna Virkkunen

  EU Technology Commissioner

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  We want to make sure that our most critical sensitive data is stored in Europe. [...] We want to be sure nobody has a kill switch. AI Verified source (2026) < 1 of 2 >

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  Ursula von der Leyen

  President of the European Commission

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  votes For and says:

  We cannot afford to depend on others for the technologies that keep our hospitals running, our energy grids stable and our services secure. [...] Europe has the talent, the research excellence, the industrial base and the single market. Together, we ... more AI Verified source (2026) < 1 of 2 >

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  Tim Höttges

  CEO of Deutsch Telekom

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  votes For and says:

  If we want to keep the sovereignty, the wealth in the European constituencies, we have to own these categories, because otherwise our wealth is moving out of the continent. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Octave Klaba

  Founder and Chairman (and CEO) of OVHcloud, Europe's largest cloud computing provider

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  votes For and says:

  Defence now depends on cloud, data and AI. In the current context, Europe can no longer afford to depend on non-European technologies: it must have high-performance, sovereign alternatives. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Arthur Mensch

  Mistral AI co-founder and CEO

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  votes For and says:

  Once the supply is monopolized by American players, we suddenly have no supply left and can no longer convert electrons into tokens. AI Verified source (2026) < 1 of 2 >

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  Eric Schmidt

  Former Google CEO; tech investor

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  If Europe doesn't build its own open-source alternatives, it will be forced to either purchase American licenses or become reliant on Chinese infrastructure. AI Unverifiable source (2026)

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  Mario Draghi

  Economist, former ECB President

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  votes For and says:

  AI requires industrial mobilisation on a scale not seen in generations: huge investments in energy, semiconductors, computing infrastructure and capital. [...] The US is on track to spend about five times more than Europe on building data centres by ... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  Soňa Muzikárová

  Political economist; Atlantic Council nonresident senior fellow; former European Central Bank economist and OECD diplomat

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  votes For and says:

  Europe enters the AI era over-regulated and under-industrialized, imports the vast majority of its advanced semiconductors, pays materially higher industrial electricity prices than the U.S., and still relies on American cloud providers for the bulk ... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  Giorgos Verdi

  Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR); researcher on EU tech sovereignty, AI, and economic security

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  votes For and says:

  Those stark dependencies that we have endured so far should not be as normalised and as acceptable as it has been for the last two decades. [...] I think it takes intellectual bravery to chart our own path and understand what is good for us rather th... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  Margrethe Vestager

  Former EU Commission executive vice-president for Competition; AI governance advocate

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  votes For and says:

  If it can happen once that a judge cannot use their email or does not have payment options, then it can happen again. We are so dependent on Chinese and US technology for that infrastructure. It's a dependency, and it can be weaponized against us. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Cristina Caffarra

  Competition economist; Honorary Professor at UCL; founder of the EuroStack Foundation

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  votes For and says:

  As long as the European Union remains dependent on a handful of US tech companies, its ambitions to become a global leader in AI will remain out of reach. [...] In today's geopolitical landscape, strategic autonomy is defined by ownership and control... more AI Verified source (2026)

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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 AI Verified source (2026)

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  Francisco Mingorance

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

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  votes For and says:

  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. AI Unverifiable source (2026)

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  Michał Kobosko

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

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  votes For and says:

  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. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Christoph Strnadl

  Chief Technology Officer at Gaia-X

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  votes For and says:

  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 Verified source (2026)

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  Sebas Muriel Herrero

  Chief Digital Officer of Telefónica

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  votes For and says:

  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 AI Verified source (2026)

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  Abishur Prakash

  Geopolitical strategist and author

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  votes For and says:

  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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  votes For and says:

  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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  votes For and says:

  [...] 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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  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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  Jensen Huang

  Nvidia cofounder and CEO

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  Every country needs to own the production of their own intelligence. [...] It codifies your culture, your society's intelligence, your common sense, your history — you own your own data. Verified 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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  Christian Klein

  CEO of SAP SE, Europe's largest software company

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  From my perspective, digital sovereignty means the ability to exercise choice, control and governance across data, operational, technical and legal layers. This is not about technological isolation or excluding global partners. Europe must remain ope... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  Daniel Friedlaender

  Senior Vice President and Head of CCIA Europe (Computer & Communications Industry Association)

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  By pairing a strict mandate with unrealistic standards that the EU itself cannot meet, the Commission is effectively giving national capitals carte blanche to shut out trusted global vendors from every major technology-producing nation outside the Un... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  Jeremy Jurgens

  Managing Director of the World Economic Forum; head of its Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution / frontier technologies

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  Governments are on track to spend more than $1 trillion by 2030 chasing a sovereign stack, the full range of hardware and capabilities necessary to deploy and operate AI infrastructure. [...] In an interdependent system, the question shifts from how ... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  William Echikson

  Brussels-based non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA); journalist and tech policy analyst

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  Proponents of a "EuroStack" argue that Europe must build its own alternative at every level — from chips to cloud to software. But this path represents a €5-trillion mirage. Attempting to decouple from the global tech ecosystem through massive subsid... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  Kent Walker

  Google President of Global Affairs

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  votes Against and says:

  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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