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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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