The company will add a constraining clause to its contracts with European governments and the European Commission indicating that it will keep the option open to go to court in the event that other governments have ordered it to suspend or cease cloud operations, he said in a blog article.
“People want to know that there are more than words we offer, which is why we are ready to support this with contractual commitments,” said Smith.
The company based in Redmond in Washington is one of the main cloud suppliers in Europe via its Microsoft Azure service.
This decision came while Microsoft has promised to strengthen its data center capacity on European soil. He said he was planning to expand his capacity for the European data center of 40% over the next two years and to expand operations in 16 European countries.
Plans are a welcome commitment to the EU. The European Commission said that it wanted to triple the capacity of the EU data center over the next five to seven years, as part of a broader plan to follow the world race for artificial intelligence.
The training of AI models requires large amounts of computer feeding and data storage capacity.
