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"Europe is pouring more than €2 billion into sovereign cloud initiatives designed to reduce exposure to US legal reach. The EU's IPCEI-CIS program funds infrastructure development. France qualifies operators under SecNumCloud, a framework with nearly 1,200 technical requirements promising "immunity from extraterritorial laws."

But most datacenters and qualified cloud operators still rely heavily on Intel or AMD processors. And inside those processors sits a computer beneath the computer: management engines operating at Ring -3, below the operating system, outside the control of host security software, persistent even when the machine appears powered off. Under the US Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act (RISAA) 2024, hardware manufacturers count as "electronic communications service providers" subject to secret government orders. "

https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/05/16/europe-built-sovereign-clouds-to-escape-us-control-then-forgot-about-the-processors/5237735?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

#EU #DigitalSovereignty #SovereignClouds #BigTech

Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Forgot about the processors

https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/05/16/europe-built-sovereign-clouds-to-escape-us-control-then-forgot-about-the-processors/5237735

#HackerNews #sovereignclouds #Europe #tech #processors #digitalsovereignty #UScontrol

The ME has its own memory, its own clock, and its own network stack, and because it can share the host's MAC and IP addresses, any traffic it generates is indistinguishable from the host's own traffic to the firewall. #sovereignclouds #SecNumCloud

https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/05/16/europe-built-sovereign-clouds-to-escape-us-control-then-forgot-about-the-processors/5237735