Apart from the stick, there is the carrot too. According to the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center, in 2020, there was a 400% increase in reported cyberattacks. The increasing prevalence of sophisticated cyberattacks is also an issue.
TheĬloud Act is another, which permits the U.S. First, you have the increasing dominance of hyperscaler cloud providers such as Google and AWS and the increasing reliance on these U.S.-based entities to hold valuable information. There are many reasons for the rising interest in Sovereign Clouds. What's driving the need for sovereign clouds? According to IDC, the European Cloud market is expected to grow from 53B€ in 2020 to 560 B€ in 2030 with more than 25% growth per year. And there's a ton of market data that supports this. It is a specific response to the realities of the growing importance of data privacy - from the citizen level, up. At its core, cloud sovereignty is about the emerging data economy and protecting and unlocking the value of national, corporate and personal data. It is clear that, as the data economy becomes a vital interest globally, sovereign states need a digital capability that prevents them from becoming dependent on foreign organizations and operators for processing their own data. In September, French President Emmanuel Macron said, "The battle we're fighting is one of sovereignty … If we don't build our own champions in all areas - digital, artificial intelligence - our choices will be dictated by others." Similarly, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has previously expressed concerns about "digital dependencies" on the U.S. Political leaders in both France and Germany have recently spoken about the need for 'European champions' as an alternative to U.S. So, the fact that heads of state and policy makers across Europe see a need to build a pan-national capability for digital infrastructure and resilience means they must be onto something. This is the case at a national level, let alone an international one. Political leaders are not renowned for their ability to agree.
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