One of the reason is a lot of those "EU Sovereign Clouds" were malicious cash grabs.

It happened several times in the last decade:

- First politicians raise the alarm about "digital sovereignty"

- Then some create new EU sovereign clouds that are pitched/forced on corporations

- They usually do not work, get consolidated and then the scam is revealed

The biggest reveal was when we discovered and warned one of our client the Orange "Sovereign Cloud" (French telco partially owned by the government !) and built to host European most sensitive worloads was just handed over and run by Huawei [0] [1]. They were not the only one who did something like that.

I don't want to put actors like Hertzner in the same bag as they seem to be honest and really compete to offer a cheaper alternative to hyperscalers.

- [0] https://www.huawei.com/en/huaweitech/publication/winwin/29/o...

- [1] https://www.techmonitor.ai/hardware/cloud/orange-introduces-...