Deutsche Telekom is significantly expanding its T Cloud Private to counter the market dominance of the major US cloud providers. This is intended to strengthen Europe's digital sovereignty.
The US hyperscalers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) $AMZN (+0,11%)Microsoft Azure $MSFT (-0,25%) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) $GOOGL (-3,86%) dominate the cloud market for companies in Europe. However, Europe wants to become more independent of the tech giants from overseas and is focusing on greater digital sovereignty.
Deutsche Telekom $DTE (-0,58%) has now announced that it will be expanding its T Cloud Private this year.
The project aims to significantly reduce the feature gap with US providers for central core features by the end of 2026 and provide a scalable infrastructure and specialized AI services at a competitive level.
"We are ending the era of either-or decisions," says Ferri Abolhassan, CEO of T-Systems and member of the Board of Management of Deutsche Telekom AG. "Until now, companies have had to choose between maximum functionality from overseas or European sovereignty. With T Cloud Public, we now deliver the best of both worlds. We are not only building a sovereign cloud, but also the digital foundation for a competitive, free Europe."
The T Cloud Public can be seamlessly combined with the Industrial AI Cloud and is designed to enable accelerated AI applications using the latest generation of GPUs.
It offers companies a ready-to-use toolkit for their IT infrastructures: computing power, storage, managed databases and preconfigured developer tools are available at the click of a mouse.
A key advantage is direct access to scarce GPU resources via the seamlessly combinable Industrial AI Cloud. This allows computationally intensive AI applications to be implemented without having to operate their own server hardware. The modular architecture allows users to select exactly the services they need, from basic network infrastructure to complete AI pipelines.
In line with the security by design approach, the platform is certified according to standards such as C5 and is based on a modern zero-trust architecture. Deutsche Telekom enables fully EU-compliant data processing in European data centers that are strictly protected against access from third countries.
This promise goes far beyond pure software security:
Customers thus receive comprehensive legal and operational sovereignty in accordance with European law and European standards.
