Europe’s new tech-sovereignty plan doesn’t ban U.S. cloud giants — it sets four levels of “sovereignty” for sensitive government data, and an American law makes the top levels nearly impossible for them to reach
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On June 3, 2026, the European Commission proposed a set of rules that would change how European governments buy cloud computing for their most sensitive data. The headline reaction framed it as Europe pulling a “kill switch” on American tech. The actual proposal is narrower and more specific: a single EU-wide framework that sorts cloud providers into four levels of “sovereignty,” meant to be applied by public bodies according to how sensitive the data is.
It is not a ban
It is not a ban
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