In late 2025, Europe codified the foundations of its sovereign cloud requirements, aimed at providing companies with a way to assess if a cloud provider’s services are compliant with EU regulations, and how much visibility foreign jurisdictions had into data-in-transfer.
Now, there are big questions over the opportunities and challenges sovereign cloud providers face in navigating a new regulatory framework, the strain placed on the transatlantic relationship, and where frontier AI models fit into this new European technological project.
