Airbus is preparing to migrate its mission-critical applications to a sovereign European cloud, launching a tender worth over €50 million. The move reflects growing corporate concern over data control under U.S. laws like the CLOUD Act — and highlights the urgent need for mature, secure European alternatives, even as Airbus admits the odds of finding a suitable provider are only 80/20.
This effort is part of a broader industry push led by Airbus, Dassault Systèmes, OVHcloud, and others, who’ve called on the EU to create a sovereign infrastructure fund. Their goal: ensure Europe controls its digital future — from AI to cloud hardware — and reduces reliance on foreign tech giants.
I’m actually shocked as hell that the EU company which is probably one of the biggest targets for state-sponsored industrial espionage had anything at all hosted outside the EU (or, in fact, in any cloud system other than an in-house one).
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Explain your statement.
from AI to cloud
Yes, Europe must build its own Torment Nexus.
I get why companies want cloud, but AI? Really?
Airbus is internally using everything Google, Drive, Mail,… even Gemini.
Sure, I get it, and I want everyone to build and sustain a european open-source infrastructure.
But many times people react in ways of “we need european tiktok/AI/facebook” when the answer is no, we don’t need EU or any other alternative to them.
