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# Airbus picks Scaleway as sovereign cloud provider, scoring extraterritorial law risk
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2026-07-16-airbus-scaleway-sovereign-cloud/
- Published: 2026-07-16T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-01T10:50:01.000Z
- Description: Airbus selected French cloud provider Scaleway for business critical enterprise applications after scoring bidders on "protection against non European extraterritorial legislation" alongside European jurisdiction and data protection.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Policy and law, Industry, investment and R&D, #news, #verified

Verified [Scaleway company announcement, 16 July 2026](https://www.scaleway.com/en/news/scaleway-secures-european-trusted-cloud-services-contract-with-airbus/?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** This does not establish the contract's value, or that Airbus has moved any workload off US hyperscalers yet.

**How this item counts.** Towards autonomy: it changes who owns, who operates, whose law governs. Binding 2 of 3 (agreed or funded), scale 1 of 3 (small), Verified counts in full: weight +6 of 36 possible. Airbus picks French-owned, EU-law Scaleway over extraterritorial risk; no workload moved yet.. [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/)