I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe
Key takeaways
- Digital Sovereignty Digital Infrastructure Digital Autonomy European Cloud Europe
- There’s a version of this post that starts with a spreadsheet and ends with a quiet sense of satisfaction.
- Digital sovereignty sounds like a buzzword until you think carefully about what it means.
April 29, 2026 10 min. Digital Sovereignty Digital Infrastructure Digital Autonomy European Cloud Europe
There’s a version of this post that starts with a spreadsheet and ends with a quiet sense of satisfaction. That’s mostly how it went. But underneath the practical exercise of swapping one Saa S tool for another was something that felt more urgent, a growing discomfort with how much of my digital infrastructure sat on servers I didn’t control, in a jurisdiction increasingly prone to unpredictability, operated by companies whose incentives don’t always align with mine.
Digital sovereignty sounds like a buzzword until you think carefully about what it means. It means knowing where your data lives. It means not being one policy change, one acquisition, or one executive’s bad mood away from losing access to tools your business depends on. It means choosing infrastructure based on values, not just convenience.