The growth of cloud and artificial intelligence has turned digital infrastructure into a strategic asset, no longer just a procurement choice. Organizations today face a new question: it's no longer enough to know where data resides — what matters is understanding who truly controls the systems that process it. The difference is no longer made by regulatory compliance alone, but by the capacity to govern, protect, restore, and evolve the infrastructure that critical processes depend on.
How can organizations maintain strategic control over cloud and AI amid growing dependence on non-EU providers?
European regulatory evolution is reshaping how organizations evaluate cloud and AI infrastructure. With the proposed Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA), a crucial question emerges: what conditions allow a critical workload to remain compliant, governable, and under an organization's own control? This paper examines the shift underway — from data residency alone to substantive control, from a single sovereignty label to a verifiable control profile for each workload — and introduces a new paradigm: the Sovereign Core Architecture as the capacity to hold regulation and infrastructure together.
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