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Airbus picks Iliad's Scaleway for AI, defence work in sovereignty push | 1330 & 101.5 WHBL
Airbus signed a multi-year cloud infrastructure deal with Scaleway (owned by French ISP Iliad) to host sensitive defence, aerospace and AI workloads, with plans to migrate 70 critical applications by end-2028 and potentially 900 over five years. The partnership ensures European sovereignty over IP, R&D and data by avoiding US cloud providers subject to extraterritorial laws.
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The Wire takeaway
If you sell cloud, networking, security or data services to European defence primes or aerospace, you now have a concrete customer migration happening at scale — Airbus is moving 900 applications over five years and will need infrastructure partners who meet the same sovereignty requirements Scaleway just proved out. Call your Airbus contacts before your US competitors do.
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Topics: Cloud Infrastructure · Defense Tech · digital-sovereignty · defence-cloud · eu-infrastructure · mistral-ai · data-residency