EU tech sovereignty package: chip emergency powers and curbs on US cloud
The Commission’s ‘AI continent’ rhetoric sits atop draft laws that would let it override chip supply contracts and keep US providers away from sensitive government data.
The European Commission unveiled its long-delayed technological sovereignty package on Wednesday, a bundle of four measures meant to loosen the bloc’s dependence on American and Asian technology across semiconductors, cloud, artificial intelligence and open source.
The Commission’s own summary cast it in the language of ambition, a route to becoming what it calls an “AI continent.” The accompanying draft texts read more like an attempt to claw back control.
Two of the four instruments carry the weight. The first is a revised Chips Act, billed as Chips Act 2.0, which shifts the emphasis from building factories to building demand for European-made chips.
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