By EuropeanSwitch Editorial · 25 April 2026 · 9 min read At a glance In February 2026, Deutsche Telekom rebranded Open Telekom Cloud as T Cloud Public and pledged full core feature parity with US hyperscalers by year-end. The company calls it Europe’s answer to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. But the term “sovereign hyperscaler” […]
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By EuropeanSwitch Editorial · 23 April 2026 · 9 min read At a glance On 17 April 2026 the European Commission awarded a €180 million, six-year sovereign cloud contract to four European providers — Post Telecom (Luxembourg), StackIT (Germany), Scaleway (France) and Proximus (Belgium). The deal is the clearest procurement signal yet that European institutions
Europe’s artificial intelligence sector has moved decisively beyond its reputation as a regulatory-first, innovation-second ecosystem. In 2026, a growing number of genuinely European AI companies are competing globally on capability, scale and commercial impact — building foundational models, enterprise platforms, autonomous systems and generative tools that are reshaping industries. What distinguishes these companies is not
A structural shift in how European organisations choose their technology providers is already underway. The drivers are regulatory, commercial, and geopolitical — and they are not going away. European digital sovereignty is no longer a policy aspiration — it is becoming a procurement reality. A quiet but significant change is taking place in boardrooms and
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