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German Program Giant Juice On Tuesday announced that insert more than 20 billion euros (23.3 billion dollars) into your sovereign cloud capacity in Europe over the next 10 years.
The company said it expands its sovereign cloud offers to include infrastructure platform as services (IAAS), which allows companies to access different computing services through a network of data centers. IAAS – This is a market where such players prevail Microsoft and Amazon.
It will also expand a new option in a place that allows customers to use the SAP infrastructure in their own data centers.
The purpose of the initiative is to ensure customer storage in the European Union to maintain the observance of regional data protection rules such as general data protection or GDPR protection.
“Innovation and sovereignty cannot be two individual things,” it must come together, “said Thomas Sauresig, a SAP board member, which instructed the customer service and delivery, during the virtual press conference on Tuesday.
He added that it is important for European companies to be able to access the latest technological achievements, such as artificial intelligence “in the full sovereign context”.
Technological sovereignty is a topic that is gaining strength last year, as geopolitical friction made the companies evaluate their dependence on foreign technology.
Countries around the world are increasingly looking for On the bank of the computing infrastructure It is necessary for training and launching powerful AI systems. This has led to major world technical players such as Amazon and Microsoft, report New sovereign cloud initiatives To ensure storage of European users are stored in the EU.
The European Commission, which is the EU executive body, has made AI a high priority for the block, as it is supposed to increase competition with the US and China. Europe has long been behind both countries when it comes to technologically more widely.
Earlier this year, the commission presented plans to invest 20 billion in the creation of a new so -called “AI Gigafactories”, Services equipped with extensive supercomputers for the next generation AI models.
Saueressig said that SAP “carefully” is involved in the creation of new giganets AI, but will not be a leading partners for the initiative.
He added that the company’s investment of more than 20 billion euros in the sovereign cloud capacity of Europe will not change the company’s capital expenses for the next year and have already been sustained in their financial plans.
