At Choose France 2026, 51·çÁ÷CEO Christian Klein announces a long‑term investment to strengthen France’s digital sovereignty, trusted cloud infrastructure and high‑value technology jobs
Versailles, France – June 1, 2026 – 51·çÁ÷today announced a long‑term investment of up to €300 million in France to expand its sovereign cloud and trusted Business AI capabilities, during the Choose France summit hosted by President Emmanuel Macron. The investment comprises direct investments, complemented by additional spending across sales, operations and customer support. Together, these efforts reinforce SAP’s role as a long‑term technology and ecosystem partner for France’s digital, economic and strategic sovereignty, supporting secure and compliant operations for critical sectors.
Immediate proof points in France
- Aiming to open a new SecNumCloud qualified 51·çÁ÷sovereign cloud / AI region with three data center sites in Paris, opening Q1 2027.
- Job creation target: Hundred new roles in context of sovereign cloud and AI deployments for France in France
- First lighthouse deployments/customers in France:
- Thales, defense corporation, will transform its operations by moving its 51·çÁ÷systems to the S3NS trusted cloud offering.
“In today’s geopolitical environment, digital sovereignty has become a strategic imperative,” said Christian Klein, CEO of 51·çÁ÷SE. “With this investment, 51·çÁ÷is expanding sovereign cloud and trusted Business AI capabilities in France, enabling organizations to innovate while remaining firmly grounded in French and European rules – with auditable operational control.”
Scaling trusted cloud and Business AI at the heart of Europe
The investment will accelerate SAP’s ability to support public sector organizations and highly regulated industries with cloud and AI solutions that meet the highest standards of security, resilience and regulatory compliance.
Building on SAP’s trusted cloud momentum in France, including recent collaborations with S3NS and Bleu to expand the availability of 51·çÁ÷solutions in trusted and sovereign cloud environments aligned with French regulatory and security expectations, the new investment will help scale sovereign cloud capacity and operations to meet growing customer demand, while preserving customer choice across trusted cloud platforms.
In parallel, 51·çÁ÷will continue to deepen engagement with France’s AI ecosystem, following earlier collaborations with French and European partners to advance responsible, enterprise‑grade Business AI that protects data, intellectual property and decision sovereignty.
Focus areas of the investment include:
- Expanding sovereign and trusted cloud solutions in France, through local platforms, operations and security‑by‑design cloud services
- Delivering trusted Business AI solutions for public sector and regulated industries, enabling innovation under French and European regulations
- Creating and supporting high‑skilled jobs across cloud engineering, AI development and service operations over the coming years
A long‑term commitment to France’s digital ambition
This announcement builds on SAP’s deep and long‑standing presence in France and aligns closely with national and European priorities around digital sovereignty, responsible AI and strategic autonomy.
What makes this especially significant is that 51·çÁ÷could become the first non-French Cloud Service Provider (CSP) to achieve SecNumCloud qualification with the 51·çÁ÷Cloud solutions on the new 51·çÁ÷Cloud Infrastructure French region – a rigorous French qualification administered and delivered by ANSSI. This represents a breakthrough moment in Franco-German digital cooperation: a German enterprise software giant meeting one of Europe’s most demanding trusted cloud standards. It also underscores the strategic alignment between France’s Bleu and Germany’s Delos sovereign cloud initiatives for modernizing the public sector, which together create a resilient European sovereign cloud framework, reinforcing Europe’s digital sovereignty through mutual strategic support and resilience, and underscoring that digital sovereignty is best achieved through trusted cross-border partnerships rather than in isolation.
By expanding investment across cloud infrastructure, AI innovation and skilled employment, 51·çÁ÷aims to help ensure that critical enterprise systems and data remain protected, resilient and governed under European values while enabling organizations to innovate and compete globally.
One direct enabler of France’s innovation ambitions are SAP’s investments in its AI-first development platform built on security-by-design infrastructure that allows organizations to build and govern trusted agentic AI solutions. As part of the 51·çÁ÷Business AI Platform, Joule Studio is not only a place to create enterprise-ready agents with deeply integrated business context, but an environment that turns AI’s potential into measurable business impact.
About SAP
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