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ESA taps OVHcloud, CGI to build system for Earth observation data
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Fusion42 · 28 September 2026 · Fusion42 review
OVHcloud and CGI won a 30-month ESA contract to build Digital EO, a computing system to store and process over 500 petabytes of Europe's Earth observation satellite data by 2035, supporting EU programs like Copernicus and DestinE. The system will be deployed across Italy, France, Germany, and supported from Poland, aligning with the European Commission's strategic cloud sovereignty push.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Cloud Infrastructure, and 2 sources have reported it.
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You must now plan for European Earth observation data to rely on a new continent-wide cloud system from OVHcloud and CGI. That changes who your future infrastructure partners and competitors are in handling satellite data.
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