Airbus has decided to shift sensitive digital systems away from Google’s cloud services, citing concerns over data security and the reach of US jurisdiction into critical European industrial information.
The European aerospace giant is preparing to migrate key workloads to a sovereign European cloud, a move executives say is necessary to keep highly sensitive production, business and aircraft design data under European control.
The decision comes as Google faces a class-action lawsuit in the United States over alleged privacy violations linked to its Gemini AI assistant, claims the company denies. Airbus currently relies on Google Workspace but plans to relocate mission-critical systems once it completes consolidation of its data centre operations.
Airbus executive vice president for digital Catherine Jestin said the company needs a sovereign cloud solution because some information is “extremely sensitive from a national and European perspective.” The upcoming tender, valued at more than €50 million, is expected to launch early next year, although Airbus has acknowledged there is only an 80 percent chance of finding a European provider capable of meeting its technical and legal standards.
The move comes amid intensifying competition with Boeing, which Airbus executives have said has benefited from political support during recent trade negotiations.
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Question is; will Nations do the same?
This is the exact problem with things like data collection and not ensuring peoples privacy, they stop trusting you.
There is no privacy. Onion may curb it however not stop breaches perpetrated by local or foreign actors.
Right you are. Onion is superseded by the unique identification of your device uses. Do not lend your device to anyone. Your addiction to playing Minecraft and other games is not longer a private obsession.
Using the internet as little as possible is the only cure for this.