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Europe steps up battle to cut reliance on US big tech as cloud law, political tensions intensify
European governments are expanding efforts to reduce reliance on U.S. software and cloud services and shift to European “sovereign technology.” The trend is linked to concerns over the 2018 U.S. CLOUD Act, which can require U.S. firms to provide access to data stored abroad. France is moving health data off Microsoft Azure to a sovereign cloud provider, and the European Commission has awarded sovereign cloud contracts to several European firms.
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Sovereign AI drives second boom in semiconductor market
A second market is opening for AI semiconductors as sovereign AI demand from national and public sectors grows beyond U.S. hyperscalers, expanding needs from GPUs to full-stack chips including CPUs and memory. Power, cooling and space constraints in sovereign environments raise the priority of power efficiency and CPU-memory integration. Forecasts cite rising sovereign AI revenues and a growing AI cloud market. In South Korea, government-backed spending is driving GPU procurement and broader server-component demand.
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Choi Jong-hyun Academy says AI should deliver via specialisation then link to general-purpose capabilities
Choi Jong-hyun Academy issued a report calling for a strategy that first produces immediate results with specialised AI and then connects to general-purpose AI capabilities. It said sovereign AI should not be framed as a domestic-versus-global binary, but as a choice of what the state must control and where to use global cooperation. The report highlighted manufacturing as a key arena and urged public infrastructure, data governance and safeguards on worker rights.