Bruno Retailleau: Have BPI and the Caisse des dépôts co-invest in sovereign cloud operators
Proposal put forward by Bruno Retailleau on July 7, 2026. Topic: Sovereign Hosting and Moratorium. The observatory also publishes quotes from 12 other public figures on this topic.
BPI and the Caisse des dépôts will co-invest, alongside predominantly European private capital, in our sovereign operators - OVH, Scaleway, Outscale, Data4 and their partners - so that they reach critical mass.
Original quote (French)
La BPI et la Caisse des dépôts co-investiront, aux côtés de capitaux privés majoritairement européens, dans nos opérateurs souverains - OVH, Scaleway, Outscale, Data4 et leurs partenaires - afin qu’ils atteignent la masse critique.Source: avecretailleau.fr · archived copy
Other candidates on this topic
- Antoine Mikolajczak: Deploy a European cloud and repatriate data centers to European territory
- Bernard Cazeneuve: Storing French citizens' data in Europe, under European law
- Bruno Le Maire: Building a world-scale data storage and processing infrastructure in Europe
- David Lisnard: Protecting health data through a sovereign framework for hosting and cybersecurity
- Emmanuel Dubuisson: Equipping France with sovereign data center hubs, some of them in the Outre-mer
- Florian Philippot: Host strategic data on public servers or servers under ANSSI control, exit the GAFAM in 3 years
- François Ruffin: Reform SecNumCloud to ban mixed United States/France consortia
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon: Build a public cloud made up of interconnected public data centers
- Juan Branco: Develop sovereign data storage solutions on the OVH model
- Marine Tondelier: Host sensitive data in data centers located in France owned by European players
- Nicolas Dupont-Aignan: Impose reversibility clauses to recover data stored on non-sovereign servers
- Sarah Knafo: Host sensitive data on sovereign infrastructure
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