Data sovereignty in the EU has become table stakes. In industries such as financial services, healthcare, education and critical national infrastructure, CIOs are expected to protect sensitive data and regulated workloads across increasingly distributed environments. This challenge is being amplified in Europe through data governance, cybersecurity, resilience and digital trust requirements in regulations such as GDPR, DORA, NIS2, the EU AI Act, the EU Data Act and others. But most sovereignty strategies still focus on where the data is stored. That’s no longer where the real risk lies.

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