Airbus moved its crown jewels off American cloud and left its AI platform exactly where it was, on AWS.
Data gravity explains it: infrastructure is portable in a way AI pipelines are not. Microsoft has since draped its expanded Mistral partnership in the word "sovereign", but a sovereign tier operated by a US company stays within reach of US law. Buying the label spends the budget without moving the jurisdiction. Somewhere in your organisation this quarter, someone is choosing the default AI stack, and nobody in the room is calling it a sovereignty decision.
AltLibreSovereignty, Sold Separately: The AI Layer - AltLibreMicrosoft is selling sovereign AI while Europe faces a compute gap. Why the AI dependency is hardening faster than the cloud layer ever did.
