Sovereign AI Cloud for Europe (5 min)
AI has become an integral part of our lives, so certainly it is the right time to think about what is actually happening with all the data we are providing to it. USA events in recent months show that entrusting our often sensitive data to companies outside of EU is risky. In the presentation, we explain how American companies providing AI services deal with data, what risks it poses and what European alternatives exist today.
dNation as one of the founding members of the international ALASCA consortium is already addressing the challenges described with concrete solutions.
European companies often entrust sensitive data to providers subject to foreign jurisdiction. The consequence is that data can be accessed under the U.S. Cloud Act, even when it physically resides in Europe. The solution is a sovereign AI cloud: open, secure, flexible, and independently certified. The talk offered a figurative analogy: entrusting your data to someone who threatens to “annex your room” is odd—and yet that’s what we do when we give it to companies under foreign jurisdiction. In practice, a simple rule applies: U.S. company = U.S. jurisdiction. The 2018 Cloud Act allows access to data regardless of where it is physically located if it is managed by a U.S. entity. That’s why not every cloud with “sovereign” in its name is truly sovereign. The speaker also mentioned the International Criminal Court case as an example of services’ vulnerability to political pressure. The point is not to “cut ourselves off” from the U.S., but to manage risk sensibly. We should distinguish between sensitive and non-sensitive data and keep the sensitive ones in an environment under our control. This is a practical step toward digital sovereignty, not an ideological war.Why data sovereignty matters
