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# Google Cloud launches Air-Gapped, expands Thales-built sovereign Dedicated
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-05-21-google-cloud-air-gapped-dedicated-sovereign/
- Published: 2025-05-21T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-22T04:00:52.000Z
- Description: Google Cloud launched Air-Gapped, a disconnected sovereign platform cleared for US Top Secret data, and put Dedicated, built with Thales via their S3NS joint venture for France's SecNumCloud standard, into preview, naming Germany as the next market.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Compute and infrastructure, #news, #reported, #ai-drafted

Reported AI-drafted [The Register, 21 May 2025](https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2025/05/21/google-extends-sovereign-cloud-options-over-us-anxieties/750322?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** This does not establish that Dedicated has completed SecNumCloud qualification or that a German rollout has been agreed, only that Google announced the roadmap.

**How this item counts.** This item is dated before the index starts on 1 January 2026, so it does not count in the [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/).

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