Cloud

Where European institutions actually run — and what it would take to move them somewhere they govern.

Six questions we ask of every layer

01 funding

How does the infrastructure sustain its operations? Public or private? Which business model?

02 control

Who gets to decide on the creation and maintenance of this layer? Who can shut it down?

03 power distribution

How is power distributed among the different stakeholders in this layer? Is it centralised among a small number of key players, or decentralised across many?

04 dependency

How dependent is this layer on other infrastructural decisions up or down the stack?

05 sovereignty

How much of this layer does Europe directly control? How much is it dependent on others?

06 is there an Alternative?

What would it take to make this layer fully European? Is there an alternative path that could serve us best?

In this layer

in development

Projects for this layer are in development and will be published here.