Europe's efforts to reduce reliance on US hyperscalers is under fire from many of the local cloud providers it is designed to help.

CISPE (Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe), a trade association of 38 of the region's cloud providers has issued a withering criticism of the official EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework, saying it is drafted so vaguely it will likely favor incumbents over local operators.

Under Trump 2.0, Europe's dependence on US clouds back under the spotlight

Officials that represent the trading bloc need a clear definition of just what a sovereign cloud is, however, the framework [PDF] from the European Commission muddies the waters by inventing an opaque "sovereignty score" that dilutes meaningful standards.

The result? European cloud providers will likely s

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