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Posted on April 17, 2026
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EU Commission Grants €180 Million Cloud Services Contract to Four Firms
European Commission Awards Sovereign Cloud Services Tender
Overview of the Contract
April 17 (Reuters) – The European Commission on Friday awarded a 180 million euro ($212 million) tender for sovereign cloud services to four European providers for a six-year period, as part of a push to reduce the bloc’s dependence on non-European technology.
Winning Providers
The contract was awarded to Luxembourg’s Post Telecom, Germany’s StackIT, French Iliad’s data centre unit Scaleway and Belgium’s Proximus.
Consortium Partners and Collaborations
Additionally, Post Telecom is bringing on partners OVHcloud and CleverCloud, while Proximus leads a consortium made up of Mistral AI, Clarence, and Thales and Google Cloud’s data centre joint venture S3NS.
Additional Information
($1 = 0.8488 euros)
(Reporting by Leo Marchandon in Gdansk, editing by Milla Nissi-Prussak)