Haven’t studied this yet but it could be interesting. The devil is in the details of course: https://commission.europa.eu/news-and-media/news/commission-moves-forward-cloud-sovereignty-eur-180-million-tender-2025-10-10_en
The Commission moves forward on cloud sovereignty with a EUR 180 million tender

As part of its efforts to strengthen its cloud sovereignty, the European Commission is procuring up to EUR 180 million of sovereign cloud services.

European Commission
@bert_hubert Novel goal, sound a good project. Price tag makes steve wonder thou....

@bert_hubert

"Up to four providers, registered in the Cloud III DPS, will be awarded a contract under a new Cloud Sovereignty Framework."

1. @upcloud
2. @hetzner

Who else?

@older @upcloud @hetzner well if they messed up 'AWS GmbH' and 'Microsoft BV' or something like that..