If you've noticed this phrase suddenly everywhere in European policy circles, you're not imagining it.
Why this became urgent. Three US companies — Amazon, Microsoft and Google — together control more than 70% of the European cloud market. European institutions have pointed out that no US company can guarantee US authorities won't compel access to that data, even when it's physically stored inside the EU.
What's changing because of it. The European Commission's Cloud and AI Development Act is designed to reduce that dependency and give organizations genuine control over where their data sits and under whose law it's governed. The Commission has already run its first sovereign-cloud procurement using a formal scoring framework.
Where LINKSPREED already solved this. This is exactly the problem the Ownership Thesis was written to address, years before "cloud sovereignty" became a policy buzzword. ARCTIC spreads compute and storage across many participants' own devices instead of a handful of centralized providers. Web4 Lite and Web4 @home let a community or organization run its own infrastructure — down to a Raspberry Pi — entirely outside any hyperscaler's jurisdiction. And LINKSPREED UG, based in Germany, keeps European user data inside the EU legal framework by design, not as a policy reaction.
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