>Sovereign cloud datacenters What does this actually mean? A superficial read suggests it's datacentres where some European country owns the hardware, but if Microsoft controls the Azure software running there, then they retain all the control? In what way are they "sovereign"?
Not in any meaningful way. That is why Microsoft is making a bug press push, to try to convince decision-makers otherwise.
Let's hope our politicians and industry pundits do not fall for it.