The Cloud Nexus. The Impact of Cloud Adoption on Competitiveness and Great-Power Competition in the 21st Century. The Case of the US, the EU, and th

云计算是一种用于在远程服务器而不是本地服务器上存储、管理和处理数据的平台服务。由于数据是数字经济的基本单位，所有大国都在制定战略，将数据迁移到云端，充分利用数字革命的好处。这种移徙既涉及公共部门，也涉及私营部门，包括政府机构、部委、中小企业以及参与关键基础设施管理的所有企业。然而，云市场目前集中在少数几家（主要是美国的）公司手中，这些公司的技术能力和可扩展性往往是第三国制定公共云战略所不可或缺的。因此，一些政策正在努力在经济考虑（需要将美国超大规模企业作为其云生态系统的一部分）和安全考虑（保护其数据的机密性，不受可能受到域外立法约束的公司的影响）之间取得平衡。在此背景下，该项目将重点放在欧盟和英国的政策上，比较它们对云计算的战略方法。在此过程中，该项目试图回答以下研究问题：他们如何寻求平衡加速向云计算迁移的战略需求与减少对外国云提供商的依赖的目标？

Cloud computing is a platform service for storing, managing, and processing data on remote rather than local servers. Since data are the basic units of the digital economy, all major powers are devising strategies to migrate their data to the Cloud and fully harness the benefits of the digital revolution. Such migration concerns both the public and the private sector, including government agencies, ministries, and small and medium enterprises (SMEs), as well as all businesses involved in the management of critical infrastructures. The Cloud market, however, is currently concentrated among a handful of (mostly US-based) companies, whose technical capabilities and scalability are often indispensable for third states to develop their Public Cloud strategies. As a result, several polities are striving to strike a balance between economic considerations - the need to have US hyperscalers as part of their Cloud ecosystem - and security ones - protecting the confidentiality of their data from companies which are potentially subject to extra-territorial legislations. Against this background, the project focuses on the polities of the European Union and the United Kingdom, comparing their strategic approaches to cloud computing. In doing so, the project seeks to answer the following research question: how do they seek to balance the strategic need to accelerate its migration to cloud computing with the objective of reducing its reliance on foreign cloud providers?