From what I can tell from this, the main reason for the EU cloud/internet is that the next years (they assume) we'll see a lot more personal data being managed

From what I can tell from this, the main reason for the EU cloud/internet is that the next years (they assume) we'll see a lot more personal data being managed by companies (health, personal data, etc); so they are looking for a way to be able to remove bad actors from the pool of companies who can access this data. If you think about it in GDPR terms, any service that is not compliant is simply not accessible from the EU internet. I would expect this to somehow fit together with articles 11 and 13 in order to enforce them (if they ever get implemented). --- I was expecting their predictions to be a bit more grim. Machine learning, privacy, and encryption play little to no part in their assumptions of the big things that will change.