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Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign European cloud (www.theregister.com)
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Airbus is preparing to migrate its mission-critical applications to a sovereign European cloud, launching a tender worth over โ‚ฌ50 million. The move reflects growing corporate concern over data control under U.S. laws like the CLOUD Act โ€” and highlights the urgent need for mature, secure European alternatives, even as Airbus admits the odds of finding a suitable provider are only 80/20.

This effort is part of a broader industry push led by Airbus, Dassault Systรจmes, OVHcloud, and others, whoโ€™ve called on the EU to create a sovereign infrastructure fund. Their goal: ensure Europe controls its digital future โ€” from AI to cloud hardware โ€” and reduces reliance on foreign tech giants.

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[โ€“] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 13 hours ago

I'm actually shocked as hell that the EU company which is probably one of the biggest targets for state-sponsored industrial espionage had anything at all hosted outside the EU (or, in fact, in any cloud system other than an in-house one).

[โ€“] msage@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

from AI to cloud

Yes, Europe must build its own Torment Nexus.

I get why companies want cloud, but AI? Really?

[โ€“] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Airbus is internally using everything Google, Drive, Mail,... even Gemini.

[โ€“] msage@programming.dev 1 points 9 hours ago

Sure, I get it, and I want everyone to build and sustain a european open-source infrastructure.

But many times people react in ways of "we need european tiktok/AI/facebook" when the answer is no, we don't need EU or any other alternative to them.