{"id":694,"date":"2026-06-01T15:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=694"},"modified":"2026-06-01T15:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:46:11","slug":"exclusive-eu-cloud-rules-to-curb-big-techs-access-to-strategic-tenders-draft-document-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=694","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: EU cloud rules to curb Big Tech&#8217;s access to strategic tenders, draft document shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div><div><ul><li>Summary<\/li><li>Companies<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div><\/div><\/div><div>BRUSSELS\/AMSTERDAM, June 1 (Reuters) &#8211; The European Union plans to propose strict criteria \u200cfor cloud computing services in highly critical state tenders that could exclude Amazon (AMZN.O)<svg><\/svg><span>, opens new tab<\/span>, Microsoft (MSFT.O)<svg><\/svg><span>, opens new tab<\/span> and Google (GOOGL.O)<svg><\/svg><span>, opens new tab<\/span> from such projects, according to documents seen by Reuters.<\/div><div>The proposal is part of the European Commission&#8217;s Cloud and AI Development Act, which EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen will unveil on Wednesday as part of a package \u200baimed at reducing the bloc&#8217;s dependence on U.S. tech and promoting EU businesses.<\/div><div>The push for sovereignty requirements in sensitive sectors \u200bsuch as banking, energy, and healthcare is driven by concerns over the dominance of U.S. tech giants, \u2060as well as concern over laws such as the Cloud Act, which requires U.S.-based providers to grant authorities access to data even \u200bif it is stored abroad.<\/div><div>The EU proposal, previously unreported and that could face late changes, also introduces mandatory &#8220;non-price&#8221; criteria for public tenders, including \u200brequirements for software and hardware developed within the EU, which would disadvantage U.S. Big Tech.<\/div><div>The EU executive&#8217;s plan, which needs backing from the bloc&#8217;s 27 countries and the European Parliament in the coming months, could draw backlash from Washington, which is already critical of EU laws aimed at reining in Big Tech \u200band ensuring that they police their platforms for illegal and harmful content.<\/div><div>The European Commission declined to comment on details of its plans \u200bthough it said that its tech sovereignty package was &#8220;crucial for strengthening Europe&#8217;s own technological capacities, for Europe&#8217;s competitiveness and security&#8221;.<\/div><div>Amazon and Microsoft declined to comment.<\/div><div>Other \u200ccriteria \u2060for selecting cloud vendors for critical state tenders are the level of data protection, third countries&#8217; control over the data and services of these providers, and how open their respective markets are for cloud services.<\/div><div>The Commission also proposed that it act as a central purchasing body for EU countries and institutions to procure data centre services, cloud computing services, software and AI systems for itself and for the latter \u200bgroups.<\/div><h2>FAST-TRACK APPROVAL FOR DATA CENTRES<\/h2><div>The \u200bdraft also sets out a \u2060streamlined fast-track approval process for data centres which will get preferential grid access and reduced network charges for using European-made chips or cutting their energy costs.<\/div><div>Last week Reuters reported on the package&#8217;s Chips Act 2.0, \u200bwhich will broaden the range of companies that can receive state funding in strategic technologies.<\/div><div>Amazon, Microsoft \u200band Google together \u2060have a combined global market share of over 60% in cloud services.<\/div><div>The three companies have sought to address sovereignty concerns in various ways. Amazon this year launched a service that is hosted entirely in Europe, physically and legally separate from its other global infrastructure.<\/div><div>Microsoft has launched locally controlled \u2060cloud ventures \u200bsuch as Bleu, owned by France&#8217;s Capgemini and Orange, and Delos Cloud, an \u200bSAP subsidiary using Microsoft Azure infrastructure.<\/div><div>Google has sought to remain eligible for sensitive European cloud work through S3NS, a Thales-controlled cloud joint venture, and a separate partnership with \u200bFrench provider OVHcloud.<\/div><div><address><div><div><noscript>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Foo Yun Chee\" class=\"wp-image-693\" src=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8112d48b9757e2240488eda882efb600.avif\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/noscript><\/div><div>Foo Yun Chee<\/div><\/div><div><ul><li><span><div><svg><title>Email<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/address><\/div><\/div><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=691\">What are AI PCs that Nvidia\u2019s Jensen Huang is betting on?<\/a><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=689\">Iran is stopping message exchanges with U.S., may block Hormuz, Tasnim news agency says<\/a><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=687\">UK releases second batch of files on Mandelson\u2019s appointment as US ambassador<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU executive&#8217;s plan, which needs backing from the bloc&#8217;s 27 countries and the European Parliament in the coming months, could draw a backlash from Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-retail-consumer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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