A Data Sovereignty Strategy Is Essential To Our Digital Future
Technative, Tuesday, August 12th, 2025
The European Union's ambitious goal that 75 percent of EU organisations should use cloud computing services by 2030, is a clear indication of how crucial a role sovereign cloud services will play in building the continent's self-sufficient digital economy over the next few years.
Alongside concerns about geopolitical and economic volatility, the question of data sovereignty has markedly returned to the forefront of debate for the region's digital businesses and governments.
This is now a critical issue - the need to resolve legal and operational ambiguities around where data is stored, who has access to this and precisely what legislation governs data held in different physical locations is fuelling an upturn in action. Businesses of all sizes have woken up to the fact that failure to address this could have hard-hitting consequences including fines for non-compliance and long term, costly, reputational damage.