On digital sovereignty, and why European cloud is better than you think

April 29, 2026 10 min. Digital Sovereignty Digital Infrastructure Digital Autonomy European Cloud Europe

There’s a version of this post that starts with a spreadsheet and ends with a quiet sense of satisfaction. That’s mostly how it went. But underneath the practical exercise of swapping one SaaS tool for another was something that felt more urgent, a growing discomfort with how much of my digital infrastructure sat on servers I didn’t control, in a jurisdiction increasingly prone to unpredictability, operated by companies whose incentives don’t always align with mine.

Digital sovereignty sounds like a buzzword until you think carefully about what it means. It means knowing where your data lives. It means not being one policy change, one acquisition, or one executive’s bad mood away from losing access to tools your business depends on.…