Overview
- Speaking in Munich, CEO Satya Nadella said customers can secure applications and data in Microsoft data centers completely against outside access.
- He pledged sovereign control via encryption and private clouds that are separated from the company’s large data centers.
- Microsoft will continue sharing global cyber‑threat intelligence, arguing borderless attacks make a fully isolated sovereign cloud a security risk.
- Nadella said AI development can run on local systems through the Foundry service, which is currently available only in a single cloud.
- The assurances answer European worries over potential U.S. authority access, as DIE ZEIT reports past investigator access to encrypted customer data and Microsoft cites roughly 20 law‑enforcement requests per year.