Deutsche Telekom breaks with Huawei and US Big Tech in new clouds
Deutsche Telekom is rolling out new cloud services that avoid both US hyperscalers and Huawei, framing the move as a step toward greater "tech sovereignty." Its T Cloud Public platform does not run on infrastructure from the big US cloud providers, and Huawei equipment is absent from its separate Industrial AI Cloud offering.
The German operator is pitching these clouds to customers who want more control over where their data sits and which vendors handle it, amid ongoing political and regulatory pressure around foreign technology dependence. Instead of leaning on the usual global cloud giants or Huawei, Deutsche Telekom is trying to build and operate more of the stack itself, or with alternative partners, to keep critical workloads under European oversight.
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