BrusselsThe EU’s cloud draft does not bar US firms from building data centres.
Critics including the European Pirate Party say it entrenches big US firms rather than alternative providers.
The Cloud and AI Development Act speeds permits and eases investment to triple EU computing capacity by 2035.
Member states in the Council and the Parliament are still drafting their positions on the act.
How each outlet framed it
- netzpolitik.org
- reads the EU cloud package as leaving a door open for US firms in sovereign-cloud rules, and says open source lacks binding commitments
Sources: netzpolitik.org