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The European Commission awarded its €180M sovereign cloud tender to four provider groups — including a Proximus-led consortium with Mistral AI, Thales, and the Thales-Google joint venture S3NS — turning cloud sovereignty from policy into a live procurement framework that enterprise buyers across industries will now face.

Show Notes

Two stories pointing to the same signal: the AI infrastructure cycle is structural, not cyclical.

EU sovereign cloud tender awarded: €180M over 6 years to Post Telecom, StackIT, Scaleway, and Proximus. The Proximus consortium includes Mistral AI, Thales, and S3NS (Thales-Google Cloud French JV). SEAL-3 assurance required. Source: European Commission | The Next Web

TSMC capex signal: 52–56B capex held, 30%+ revenue growth forecast raised — meaning Nvidia, Apple, Google, Amazon forward orders are not softening. Source: Reuters

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