# EuroTechBrief

> Independent, reader-funded reporting on sovereign software, self-sufficient AI, self-hosting, open source and European business technology.

EuroTechBrief is an independent, reader-funded European news publication. Every update names its reporter and source; times are Central European Time. Figures marked "illustrative" are not measurements. Please cite the canonical URL of the story or update you quote.

## Live coverage

- [Halden Cloud Frankfurt outage: live updates](https://eurotechbrief.com/live/halden-frankfurt-outage/): Live: Halden Cloud’s Frankfurt region is down after a cooling failure. What failed, who is affected, NIS2 reporting and what customers should do now. Status: live. Last updated 29 Oct 2026, 10:31 CET.

## Sections

- [Sovereignty](https://eurotechbrief.com/sovereignty/): Who controls Europe’s digital infrastructure: sovereign cloud, data residency, procurement and EU digital regulation such as NIS2.
- [AI](https://eurotechbrief.com/ai/): Self-sufficient AI in Europe: open-weight models, local inference, compute capacity and the EU AI Act in practice.
- [Self-Hosting](https://eurotechbrief.com/self-hosting/): Practical guides and reporting on running your own infrastructure: resilience, backups, multi-region set-ups and costs.
- [Open Source](https://eurotechbrief.com/open-source/): European open-source projects, foundations, licences and the companies and public bodies that depend on them.
- [Business](https://eurotechbrief.com/business/): European technology companies, funding, procurement and the economics of digital independence. Not investment advice.
- [Tools](https://eurotechbrief.com/tools/): Interactive tools and calculators for assessing vendors, costs and the sovereignty of your technology stack.

## Newsroom

- [Ana Ribeiro](https://eurotechbrief.com/authors/ana-ribeiro/): Data reporter, Lisbon. Ana Ribeiro runs EuroTechBrief’s reader surveys and data analysis, and writes about European technology markets with numbers that can be checked. She is based in Lisbon.
- [Ilse Varga](https://eurotechbrief.com/authors/ilse-varga/): Editor, Sovereignty desk, Brussels. Ilse Varga edits EuroTechBrief’s sovereignty coverage from Brussels, focusing on EU digital regulation, sovereign cloud policy and how rules such as NIS2 work in practice.
- [Lena Hartwig](https://eurotechbrief.com/authors/lena-hartwig/): Infrastructure correspondent, Frankfurt. Lena Hartwig covers data centres, cloud infrastructure and the physical side of digital sovereignty, from power and cooling to network interconnects. She reports from Frankfurt.
- [Tomasz Wrona](https://eurotechbrief.com/authors/tomasz-wrona/): Customers and procurement reporter, Warsaw. Tomasz Wrona reports on how European companies and public bodies buy and depend on technology: procurement, contracts, outages and what they cost. He is based in Warsaw.

## About and standards

- [About EuroTechBrief](https://eurotechbrief.com/about/): ownership, funding and independence
- [Editorial standards](https://eurotechbrief.com/editorial-standards/): sourcing, verification, live coverage and AI use
- [Corrections](https://eurotechbrief.com/corrections/): every published correction
- [Contact](https://eurotechbrief.com/contact/): tips and corrections

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