EU's Sovereignty Drive Rewrites Public Tech Buying with New Rules and Open-Source Push
The EU’s Technological Sovereignty Package aims to boost digital autonomy across cloud, AI, semiconductors, and open source, introducing auditable Union Assurance Levels and other frameworks that public-sector buyers must navigate. Gartner warns this will create an “alphabet soup” of overlapping rules (SEAL, C3A, SecNumCloud, CADA) as Europe plans to triple datacenter capacity and favor European-developed, secure workloads. The package also strengthens open-source strategies and a revamped Chips Act to reduce reliance on non-EU suppliers, potentially reshaping tech procurement beyond Europe.