Recital (24)

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Official source: COM(2026) 502 final — Proposal for a Cloud and AI Development Act

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The Cloud and AI Leadership Initiatives should also ensure the uptake of cloud
            computing services provided by European cloud computing service providers across
            the public and private sectors to ensure that cloud adoption is consistent with the
            objective of strengthening the Union’s technological autonomy, particularly in sectors
            such as healthcare and education which involve the processing of critical data. This
            objective could leverage the outcomes of relevant European digital infrastructure
            consortiums (‘EDICs’), including shared infrastructure, common standards and best
            practices. The Cloud and AI Leadership Initiatives should support the establishment of
            the European public-sector cloud federation (‘the EuroCloud Federation’) under this
            Regulation to facilitate the sharing of secure and resilient public-sector data centre
            services and cloud computing services. Moreover, the Cloud and AI Leadership
            Initiatives should support procurement activities carried out by the Commission for
            Union institutions, agencies and bodies (‘Union entities’), but also national contracting
            authorities across the Union, as the procurement of digital services should not only
            advance the digitalisation of public-sector bodies, but also enable them to utilise their
            purchasing power and accelerate the adoption of resilient and secure digital solutions.

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