digital sovereignty

Sep 30

Europe's Digital Sovereignty Push Hits Reality in 2027

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.

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Sep 10

Why Digital Sovereignty Remains a Fantasy for Most Companies

Source: The Register: Biting the hand that feeds

Despite rhetorical commitment to reducing vendor lock-in, organizations face brutal economic and technical realities that make switching suppliers prohibitively expensive—and one in ten admit they're genuinely trapped with no replacement option available. The problem is structural: digital sovereignty requires competitive markets with genuine alternatives, which don't exist in many infrastructure categories. Enterprise software markets have consolidated around switching costs so high that independence has become a privilege rather than a choice, available mainly to the largest players who can absorb the transition expense.