Your data is in Europe. Your technology still isn’t sovereign
THE SO WHAT
The piece nails a hard truth: data residency ≠ control—if a foreign government can turn off your upstream service, your stack isn’t sovereign. European operators should map critical dependencies on non-EU vendors and start building optionality at the infra and application layers, not just in where the servers sit.
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