Source: Featured Blogs - Forrester
European regulators are shifting from rhetorical commitments to concrete infrastructure investments—cloud data centers, chip manufacturing, AI models—but face a structural problem: they lack the economic density to compete at scale with US and Chinese platforms while still needing interoperability with global systems. This forces a choice between selective control points (data residency, local compute) and true independence. Europe is choosing the former, accepting permanent technological semi-reliance rather than betting on parity.