Henna Virkunen speaking at the launch of today's Technological Sovereignty Package. Image © European Union, 2026
Three US cloud providers control 70pc of Europe’s market. The Commission wants to change that.
The European Commission today (3 June) published its long-awaited Technological Sovereignty Package, a bundle of legislation and strategy designed to cut the EU’s dependence on non-European suppliers across chips, cloud, AI and open source.
The headline items are two new legislative proposals: a Chips Act 2.0 and a Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA), alongside an Open Source Strategy and a roadmap for digitalising the energy sector.
AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud currently account for around 70pc of Europe’s cloud market, and the US Clouyd Act means American authorities can compel those providers to hand over data regardless of where it is stored.
