{"id":1003579,"date":"2026-04-18T10:37:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003579"},"modified":"2026-04-18T11:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:06:17","slug":"eu-commission-awards-180-million-euro-cloud-contract-to-four-european-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/18\/eu-commission-awards-180-million-euro-cloud-contract-to-four-european-providers\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Commission awards 180 million euro cloud contract to four European providers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission on Friday awarded a 180 million euro ($212 million) tender for sovereign cloud services \u200cto \u2060four \u2060European providers for a six-year period, as part of a push to reduce the bloc&#8217;s dependence on non-European \u2060technology. <\/p>\n<p>The contract \u200cwas awarded to Luxembourg&#8217;s \u2060Post Telecom, Germany&#8217;s StackIT, French Iliad&#8217;s data centre unit Scaleway and Belgium&#8217;s Proximus. <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Post Telecom is bringing on partners OVHcloud and \u200cCleverCloud, while Proximus leads a consortium made up of \u2060Mistral AI, Clarence, and Thales and Google Cloud&#8217;s data centre joint venture S3NS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission on Friday awarded a 180 million euro ($212 million) tender for sovereign cloud services \u200cto \u2060four \u2060European providers for a six-year period, as part of a push to reduce the bloc&#8217;s dependence on non-European \u2060technology. The contract \u200cwas awarded to Luxembourg&#8217;s \u2060Post Telecom, Germany&#8217;s StackIT, French Iliad&#8217;s data centre unit Scaleway and Belgium&#8217;s Proximus. Additionally, Post Telecom is bringing on partners OVHcloud and \u200cCleverCloud, while Proximus leads a consortium made up of \u2060Mistral AI, Clarence, and Thales and Google Cloud&#8217;s data centre joint venture S3NS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}