The Cloud and AI Development Act 'should embed a sovereignty provision that curtails the current “sovereignty-washing” practiced by US hyperscalers in partnership with European firms. Here, sovereignty means fostering genuine competence and capacity inside the Union, rather than relying on complex legal tricks that depend on foreign-controlled technology.'

https://www.techpolicy.press/europe-cant-defend-democracy-on-us-servers/ by Alexandra Geese, MEP (The Greens)

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One way in which adding #India to the mix changes analyses:

One prediction is that the E.U. will be against the #RussianFarEast seceding and disintegrating because of worries about the nukes.

But India already is a nuclear power, and the E.U. might be less worried if an existing power takes over the Far East's nuclear weaponry, even if it's a non-treaty one, over the oblasts and krais becoming a bunch of mini-powers.