News Summary

• France is taking steps to reduce its reliance on Windows, while its domestic intelligence agency recently renewed its contract with Palantir.
• This paradox is representative of Europe’s messy breakup with U.S. tech.
• After painful realizations that it comes with strings attached, governments across the region are looking to rely less on American providers.
• For instance, the French government announced that its Health Data Hub would be leaving Microsoft Azure in favor of a “sovereign cloud” This contract has now been awarded to Scaleway, a French cloud provider with a rapidly expanding network of data centers across Europe.