# Europe's Dependence on US Cloud Services

DevFeed: [Europe's Dependence on US Cloud Services](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/europe-s-self-inflicted-cloud-crisis-36511.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/our-self-inflicted-cloud-crisis/>)

Published: 2025-07-24T14:10:37Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Bert Hubert's writings](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/bert-hubert-s-writings.md>)

Topics: [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>)

Tags: [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [cloud-services](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-services.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [eurostack](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/eurostack.md>), [government](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/government.md>), [servers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/servers.md>), [services](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/services.md>)

## AI overview

This opinion article argues that European governments and organizations are becoming increasingly dependent on US-controlled cloud services for critical data and systems. It maintains that locally owned servers and European providers remain viable alternatives, and calls for policies that support European cloud services and digital sovereignty.

## Source excerpt

The short version For decades, governments and organizations could run services based on servers we actually owned. These days, we've allowed the IT world to convince us no computing is possible outside of US-style clouds, for which we have no European equivalents. And because of this conviction, we are now moving our most precious data and most critical services to US controlled servers. Yet most of European government software still runs on locally owned systems.