The amount of data continues to grow rapidly. Increasing amounts of data are collected in different environments: in cities, industry, homes and from people via smart devices. In the current more tense security policy environment, the long-standing concentration of data collection, management and use is increasingly perceived as a security issue. For this reason, in the coming years, the EU will accelerate the development of European cloud services and other data infrastructure to reduce various dependences, including on US-based providers.