Switzerland Undercover - Episode 1Head in the Clouds

In June 2021, Switzerland decided to collaborate with Amazon, Alibaba, Oracle, IBM and Microsoft to build its national cloud. All of the Confederation’s data will be stored on servers owned by these North American and Chinese multinationals as a result. But why not store Swiss data on a Swiss cloud? In the French-speaking part of the country, several companies are taking action.

This programme of the Swiss channel SRG SSR is part of The European Collection, a joint initiative of European public media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SRG SSR and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.