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European Cloud Providers
There is a growing landscape of European cloud providers. All of them are offering basic IaaS services, such as VMs and managed databases. Differences are in the PaaS offering, in AI and in serverless services.
Headlines about European Cloud & AI
Latest news and opinion pieces about what is going on in the European cloud, AI and tech scene.
- Microsoft and Mistral AI: good for Europe’s AI or death of The Only Hope?
Key Takeaways Microsoft will invest billions of dollars to expand Mistral AI’s GPU compute capacity in Europe.[^5] The partnership adds Mistral’s Medium 3.5 and OCR 4 models to Azure Foundry and Copilot Studio, enabling “sovereign” AI for regulated industries.[^2][^6] Microsoft will not take a new equity stake in Mistral, but will provide Azure credits and infrastructure support.[^5][^8] Both companies… Read more: Microsoft and Mistral AI: good for Europe’s AI or death of The Only Hope? - What the Anthropic ban means for EU companies – some answers
The U.S. Commerce Department has imposed export controls on Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models, forcing a worldwide shutdown for non‑U.S. users - What is the EU’s Cloud Sovereignty Framework?
The European Commission introduced a binding Cloud Sovereignty Framework in October 2025 to define and assess digital sovereignty of cloud services - Why I am bullish on STACKIT of Schwarz Digits
STACKIT by Schwarz Digits is well positioned to play an important role in Europe’s cloud market with scale, vision, and innovation. - Three billion dollars: Berlin startup unicorn triples valuation – in just eight months
AI‑specialist Parloa raised €350 million, pushing its post‑money valuation to €3 billion. Berlin’s unicorn ecosystem now counts 23 high‑growth companies. - AI in Germany: Schwarz Group expands its influence over Aleph Alpha
The Schwarz Group plans to acquire Bosch Ventures’ shareholding in Aleph Alpha, further consolidating its influence over the German AI firm.