{"id":345456,"date":"2026-06-04T08:53:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=345456"},"modified":"2026-06-04T08:53:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:23:25","slug":"eu-sets-out-plans-to-cut-back-reliance-on-us-cloud-providers-computerworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/eu-sets-out-plans-to-cut-back-reliance-on-us-cloud-providers-computerworld\/","title":{"rendered":"EU sets out plans to cut back reliance on US cloud providers \u2013 Computerworld"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The European Technological Sovereignty Package \u2014 released after several delays \u2014\u00a0includes two legislative proposals: the Cloud and AI Development Act and Chips Act (CAIDA) 2.0 and the Open Source Strategy and Strategic Roadmap for Digitalization and AI in Energy.<\/p>\n<p>CAIDA goals to triple data center capability in the subsequent five to seven years by easing restrictions for deployments across the EU. It also includes rules that, if enacted, would require EU public bodies to satisfy certain sovereignty criteria for cloud service procurement related to certain sensitive workloads.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"jwPlayer--floatingContainer\" role=\"complementary\" data-nosnippet=\"\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Amid ongoing trans-Atlantic tensions and a long-time deep reliance on US tech providers, European organizations have grow to be increasingly wary of a \u201ckill switch\u201d that may cut off access to digital services. There are also concerns that US hyperscalers may very well be compelled to share data with US government under the CLOUD Act and Foreign Intelligence Services Act (FISA), even when data centers are positioned in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The CAIDA proposals include 4 levels of criteria for suppliers; essentially the most basic includes data center infrastructure positioned and operated within the region \u2013 something\u00a0 many US cloud suppliers already provide \u2013 with stricter rules around supplier ownership, full control over the software stack, and more stringent cybersecurity certification.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Technological Sovereignty Package \u2014 released after several delays \u2014\u00a0includes two legislative proposals: the Cloud and AI Development Act and Chips Act (CAIDA) 2.0 and the Open Source Strategy and Strategic Roadmap for Digitalization and AI in Energy. CAIDA goals to triple data center capability in the subsequent five to seven years by easing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":345457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4432,17165,972,10945,1596,46830,1358],"class_list":["post-345456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-cloud","tag-computerworld","tag-plans","tag-providers","tag-reduce","tag-reliance","tag-sets"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345459,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345456\/revisions\/345459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}