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    Europe’s Push for Digital Sovereignty Reshapes Cloud Strategy and Procurement

    Europe’s scramble for “digital sovereignty” has moved from regulatory rhetoric to procurement reality: large firms and public bodies are actively reclassifying which workloads must stay under EU legal and operational control, and that reclassification is reshaping cloud strategy across the...
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    Airbus for AI and the EU sovereign cloud: pragmatic European data sovereignty

    Airbus’s public pivot — described in some policy and industry discussions as a push “towards farewell to big tech” and a call for an EU sovereign cloud for data — is the latest and most emblematic sign that Europe’s industrial players, regulators and cloud incumbents are converging on a new...
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    Google Data Transfer Essentials: No egress fees for in-parallel multicloud in EU/UK

    Google has moved the cloud market’s chess pieces with a tactical — and loudly publicised — concession: for customers in the European Union and the United Kingdom, Google Cloud will no longer charge data‑egress fees for qualifying “in‑parallel” multicloud transfers through a new offering called...
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    Google Enables Free Multicloud Data Transfers in EU/UK Under Data Act

    Google has moved to eliminate a key friction point for organisations running workloads across multiple cloud providers in Europe and the UK, announcing that its Data Transfer Essentials service will be available at no cost for customers processing workloads “in parallel” across two or more...