Apr, 2026 : Leaseweb Pushes Europe’s Sovereign Cloud Beyond Talk
📅 - Leaseweb has spent the past year turning a familiar European policy ambition into actual cloud plumbing, expanding its European Cloud Campus under the IPCEI-CIS program with new compute, storage, and automation capabilities. The Dutch provider says the project now supports autoscaling, load balancing, and private-network storage - a more concrete signal than most sovereignty rhetoric.
That matters because Europe's sovereign cloud debate has been heavy on declarations and light on operating infrastructure. Leaseweb is trying to change that. The company, a global cloud services and IaaS provider, is pitching its latest work as proof that the region's cloud agenda is finally moving off [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
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