European digital sovereignty: two steps forward and one backward. The European Commission has announced the four winners of a tender for a Europen sovereign cloud, ranking them according to measurable criteria. It’s all very well, but it’s a shame that one of the four winning consortia relies on Google Cloud, which is therefore subject to the Cloud Act, under which the US government can access servers located outside the US. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_833 #digitalsovereignty