In 2026 Germany decided, politically, to exit Palantir — the federal government says no, the domestic intelligence service buys a European alternative. Except it isn't really an exit: the dependency isn't dissolved, just shifted one layer deeper. A “Palantir made in EU” answers the question of origin — the fundamental-rights question remains.
Confidential Computing protects data not only at rest and in transit, but also while it is being processed – inside a hardware-encrypted enclave that even the cloud provider cannot look into. That genuinely solves the confidentiality problem, but it does not automatically solve digital sovereignty, because the roots of trust (the chips, the attestation technology) are themselves under US control.
