# Commission backs Gaia-X as a sovereign-cloud project

Date: 2020

In 2020 [Breton](/people/thierry-breton) championed Gaia-X. Delivery lagged and US hyperscalers remained inside the ecosystem. A project launch is a completed industrial-policy act, not a European cloud monopoly.

## People

- Thierry Breton: https://factrail.ai/people/thierry-breton

## Drivers

- Digital-Platform Power Concentration: https://factrail.ai/drivers/digital-platform-power-concentration

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-cloud-gaiax-idUSKBN23B1G4/
- https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/cloud-computing

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/eu-gaia-x-2020