UK Demands Brussels Spare It From 'Made in Europe' Cloud Law
UK Demands Brussels Spare It From 'Made in Europe' Cloud Law The Berlaymont in Brussels, headquarters of the European Commission, where the Cloud and AI Development Act is being drafted. Photo: acediscovery via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0). A decade after Brexit, Britain is knocking on Brussels' door asking to be treated as European — this time, for cloud contracts. The European Union's new Cloud and AI Development Act would reserve its most sensitive government data work for EU vendors only, and London is warning that British digital companies will be the collateral damage. The UK has voiced concerns that the bloc's push for technological autonomy will damage British digital companies, arguing it should be eligible to compete for contracts under the forthcoming "Made in Europe" tech rules, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The story landed at 5:46am London time — before most of Whitehall was awake — and by lunchtime it had reframed the EU–UK summit due...