Executive framing
This paper defines the operational capability required to realise Europe’s open-source and digital-sovereignty ambitions at infrastructure scale. For EUCLORA, European cloud sovereignty exists when cloud infrastructure remains operable, governable, and evolvable within the European Union – independently of any individual vendor, platform, or external control.
The core argument is that Europe must complement federation with pooling: an open, coherent operational cloud fabric in which automation, telemetry, and policy evolve together across providers – so improvements propagate and compound.
What the paper covers
- Why latency and governance are not Europe’s primary bottlenecks – and where the structural efficiency drag really sits.
- Quantifying efficiency gaps across PUE, utilisation, and automation density – and how they scale into energy and capital asymmetry.
- The “pooling vs federation” distinction, and why federation alone can multiply overhead across parallel stacks.
- The role of InnoFabric as shared operational cloud fabric reference code, plus shared test environments and auditable metrics.