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Europe Moved Its Satellite Archive Onto Infrastructure It Controls

ByIvan Tarin

Oct 1, 2026

Europe’s most strategic dataset just moved onto infrastructure Europe controls.

  • ESA awarded OVHcloud and CGI a 30-month contract, reported on 28 September, to build the computing platform for Europe’s Earth observation data.
  • The system, Digital EO, combines storage, compute and AI tooling. It runs in France, Germany and Italy, with support operations in Poland.
  • Value is described only as being in the multi-million euro range. ESA did not publish a figure.
  • ESA expects the archive to pass 500 petabytes by 2035. It will feed Copernicus and Destination Earth.
  • The award follows an April European Commission tender worth up to EUR 180 million for sovereign cloud services, scored on legal control, supply-chain transparency and non-EU influence.

Read the full analysis. Europe Is Moving 500 Petabytes of Satellite Data Onto European Cloud

By Ivan Tarin

Ivan Tarin is a Principal Product Marketing Manager at SUSE, where he owns go-to-market strategy and positioning for a seven-product cloud-native portfolio spanning Kubernetes, virtualization, storage, security, and observability. A former full-stack developer who shipped production code for enterprise and public-sector clients including U.S. national laboratories, Ivan translates complex infrastructure and AI technology into messaging that lands with developers, platform teams, and enterprise buyers. He has presented at KubeCon, SUSECON, and AWS Developer Week, and is currently pursuing an MS in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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