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).