European governments are trying to replace U.S. software with sovereign tech, with France moving away from Windows and renewing its contract with data analytics company Palantir. The CLOUD Act, implemented in 2018, mandates U.K. tech companies to comply with law enforcement requests for data even if the information is stored abroad. This means even servers located on European soil are no longer enough reassurance for critical data. However, this has not always translated into business from the U., with France’s Health Data Hub being replaced by Scaleway, a French cloud provider with a network of data centers across Europe. Scaleway was also one of four providers that won a €180 million sovereign cloud tender from the European Commission (approximately $211 million). However, there are concerns that the U.-S. may still have a backdoor due to one winner using S3NS, a “trusted cloud” joint venture between Thales and Google Cloud. The prospect of winning large contracts with European institutions could encourage other companies to follow suit. However it may also be a double-edged sword for companies challenging Big Tech, which could give them a leg up.