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Airbus picks Scaleway as sovereign cloud provider, scoring extraterritorial law risk

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.

Verified AI-drafted Scaleway company announcement, 16 July 2026

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

How this item was made. Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. How the record is made

What the tags mean: VerifiedReportedAI-draftedAI-drafted, editor-readHuman-writtenWhat the tags mean

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