Commission Proposes Cloud and AI Development Act + Chips Act 2.0 (Made-in-Europe) (BACK-WINDOW CATCH)
European Commission proposed a legislative package: Cloud and AI Development Act + Chips Act 2.0. Sovereignty requirements for cloud providers in banking, energy, healthcare. Public-procurement for sensitive contracts limited to EU-made software and hardware, excluding non-European companies from controlling data and services. Target: double EU global semiconductor market share to 20% by 2030. EU tech chief Virkkunen explicitly named foreign-government kill-switch risk as the rationale (paraphrase): We want to be sure nobody has a kill switch.