Category: Digital Sovereignty
Digital sovereignty strategies covering vendor dependency, data residency, platform resilience, lock-in reduction, and continuity planning
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The EU data centre rating will score facilities above 500 kW on energy, water and grid contribution from 2027. It rates buildings, not cloud services. What that means for cloud and AI procurement, and three questions to put to your provider now.
Google is investing at least 13 billion euro in Finnish data centres, with a 22-year nuclear power agreement attached. Every machine will sit on EU soil. Why that changes less about compute sovereignty than it appears to, and which four questions actually move your position.
Taiwan has charged nine people over 130 AI servers diverted to China on false paperwork. Vendor accreditation and a signed end-user certificate both stop at delivery. What a live provenance record catches that a closed file cannot, and why this runs on a separate clock from the AI Act.
Nigeria signed three cloud instruments on 5 August, sorting government data into four levels and pinning the top two inside the country. The architecture mirrors CADA almost exactly. What changes for EU providers when the sovereignty test is pointed at them, and what October 2026 decides.
The European Commission has opened a targeted consultation on data sovereignty, running to 8 September. It asks who can reach European data and under whose law. The policy outcome is uncertain. The internal exposure map an honest answer requires is valuable whatever Brussels decides.
CADA defines four assurance levels for cloud and AI sovereignty, up to EU ownership at Level 3 and full supply-chain control at Level 4. The proposal is not law yet, but the levels already work as a scoring frame. Five procurement and due diligence changes to make this quarter.