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SovereignIT @sovereignit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

US sanctions target the ICC’s access to American tech providers. US companies have six months to wind down services. Can European institutions keep working when their suppliers must withdraw? www.reddit.com/r/SovereignI...

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SovereignIT @sovereignit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The European Commission is deploying self-hosted Element as a Teams backup. A practical sovereignty question: can you keep communicating if your main provider disappears? How much autonomy does a fallback provide? www.reddit.com/r/SovereignI...

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SovereignIT @sovereignit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Swedish AI infrastructure, Delaware incorporation, a planned Nasdaq listing. What makes a cloud sovereign: server location, ownership, jurisdiction or operational control? www.reddit.com/r/SovereignI...

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SovereignIT @sovereignit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Dutch tax administration is reversing its Microsoft 365 cloud rollout after a review found lock-in and no workable exit strategy. Should public cloud procurement require a tested way out? www.reddit.com/r/SovereignI...

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From the SovereignIT community on Reddit: The Dutch tax administration abandons its Microsoft 365 cloud rollout for on-premises email and European open-source tools

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SovereignIT @sovereignit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

STACKIT wants to become Europe’s cloud “trust broker”. Can partnerships with US vendors help customers migrate to European infrastructure, or preserve their dependencies? What would persuade your organisation to move? www.reddit.com/r/SovereignI...

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From the SovereignIT community on Reddit: STACKIT wants to become Europe’s cloud “trust broker”. Can it turn interest into actual migrations?

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SovereignIT @sovereignit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

French local authorities are piloting Matrix-based messaging that could connect with Tchap, already used by central government. The hard part? Making identity and staff directories work across organisations. A real test of open, federated public-sector messaging. www.reddit.com/r/SovereignI...

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From the SovereignIT community on Reddit: French local authorities are building a Matrix-based alternative to WhatsApp and Teams

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SovereignIT @sovereignit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

73% of IT leaders in a Civo survey call sovereignty strategic. Only 15% have taken steps to leave US hyperscalers, while 28% plan to rely on them more. Vendor survey, so read with care. But the gap between concern and action is real food for discussion. www.reddit.com/r/SovereignI...

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From the SovereignIT community on Reddit: Companies say sovereignty matters. So why are more of them planning to rely on US hyperscalers?

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SovereignIT @sovereignit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Cohere and Aleph Alpha want to create a Canadian-German sovereign AI company, combining Canadian models, German expertise and STACKIT infrastructure. A credible third option built with a trusted partner, or a loss of European control? www.reddit.com/r/SovereignI...

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From the SovereignIT community on Reddit: Can a Canadian-German merger create a genuinely sovereign AI company?

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SovereignIT @sovereignit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Europe cannot fabricate every advanced chip yet. But imec is making TSMC’s advanced design technologies accessible to European start-ups that could not build the required infrastructure alone. Not independence, but stronger European design capacity. www.reddit.com/r/SovereignI...

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From the SovereignIT community on Reddit: Europe cannot fabricate every advanced chip yet, imec is making sure its designers can still build them

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SovereignIT @sovereignit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

SiPearl has delivered its first European Rhea1 processors for JUPITER, Europe’s first exascale supercomputer. Nvidia still provides most of its power, but sovereignty will be built one credible deployment at a time. www.reddit.com/r/SovereignI...

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From the SovereignIT community on Reddit: A major milestone for European computing: SiPearl’s Rhea1 enters Europe’s fastest supercomputer

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SovereignIT @sovereignit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A Belgian company built an on-premises security model using Chinese open-weight AI and American Nvidia GPUs. Customers control the deployment and their data, but not the whole stack. Is operational independence sovereign enough? www.reddit.com/r/SovereignI...

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From the SovereignIT community on Reddit: A Belgian company built an on-premises security model on Chinese AI and Nvidia hardware… Is that sovereign enough?

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SovereignIT @sovereignit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Nexperia will manufacture and package chips in India, reducing its dependence on China. That makes its supply chain more resilient… but not more European. Is diversification among trusted partners enough, or must Europe retain more production at home? www.reddit.com/r/SovereignI...

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SovereignIT @sovereignit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Nvidia’s dominance comes not only from its GPUs, but from CUDA. France wants to avoid a similar dependency in quantum computing by making software portable across different hardware, before one vendor’s stack becomes unavoidable. www.reddit.com/r/SovereignI...

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From the SovereignIT community on Reddit: France wants quantum software that works across different hardware, not another CUDA-style dependency

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SovereignIT @sovereignit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Public administrations often solve data fragmentation by buying another central platform. Flanders built an open-source alternative: shared standards and reusable components that let independent systems synchronise data without making one vendor unavoidable. www.reddit.com/r/SovereignI...

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From the SovereignIT community on Reddit: Flanders built an open-source way to synchronise public data without another proprietary platform

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SovereignIT @sovereignit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A European AI accelerator is now shipping. Axelera’s Europa is designed in Europe, but relies on a global ecosystem of foundries, components and server vendors. Sovereignty cannot mean autarky. So how much of the stack must Europe actually control? www.reddit.com/r/SovereignI...

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From the SovereignIT community on Reddit: A European AI accelerator is now shipping, but “European silicon” still depends on a global hardware ecosystem

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SovereignIT @sovereignit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

New connected products sold in the EU must now be designed to give users access to the data they generate. That could enable independent repair and competing services. But access is not yet interoperability: will manufacturers provide genuinely usable interfaces? www.reddit.com/r/SovereignI...

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SovereignIT @sovereignit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Spain wants EU-operated data centres with operational data kept in Europe, plus 80% hourly matching with new renewables. Aragón says the rules could make projects impossible. Can sovereignty be both sustainable and buildable? www.reddit.com/r/SovereignI...

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Spain wants sovereign, sustainable data centres. Aragón says its rules are impossible to meet

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SovereignIT @sovereignit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A US sanctions decision was enough to disable an Italian nonprofit. Its .org domain disappeared, PayPal suspended its account, and even its Italian bank froze its funds. No Italian court order was needed. Digital sovereignty goes far beyond where servers are hosted. www.reddit.com/r/SovereignI...

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From the SovereignIT community on Reddit: A US blacklist took an Italian nonprofit offline through the .org registry and payment infrastructure

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SovereignIT @sovereignit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

European satellite sovereignty cannot wait for IRIS². Eutelsat is adding 229 Airbus-built satellites to OneWeb. Most will help maintain an existing network, not create a consumer-scale Starlink clone. Why that continuity matters: www.reddit.com/r/SovereignI...

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From the SovereignIT community on Reddit: Europe’s satellite sovereignty cannot wait for IRIS²: Eutelsat orders 229 more OneWeb satellites from Airbus

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SovereignIT @sovereignit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

European model. US platform. Customer-controlled deployment. Sovereign AI? The Mistral–Cloudera partnership suggests sovereignty may depend less on nationality than on whether customers can operate and replace every layer. Join the discussion: www.reddit.com/r/SovereignI...

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From the SovereignIT community on Reddit: Can AI be sovereign when the model is European, the platform American, and deployment remains under the customer’s control?

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SovereignIT @sovereignit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Sovereignty does not mean autarky, replacing every American product or celebrating anything labelled “European”. It means understanding our dependencies, retaining credible alternatives and preserving the ability to choose, negotiate and change direction. 2/3

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SovereignIT @sovereignit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hello, Bluesky. SovereignIT is a space for news and discussion about technological sovereignty: cloud, AI, infrastructure, semiconductors, open source, regulation, European technology companies and the dependencies hidden beneath the services we use.

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