The European Commission awarded a six-year, €180 million sovereign cloud contract to four consortia: Luxembourg's Post Telecom (with OVHcloud and CleverCloud), Germany's StackIT, France's Scaleway, and Belgium's Proximus (with Mistral AI, Thales, and the Thales–Google Cloud joint venture S3NS). The contract enables EU institutions to procure cloud services assessed across eight sovereignty criteria including legal jurisdiction and supply chain transparency. The selection of S3NS — which pairs Google Cloud infrastructure with Thales governance — signals a pragmatic shift: non-European technology "operated within an appropriate framework" can now qualify as sovereign under EC procurement rules.