Europe’s digital sovereignty era may have ended before it ever began. The EU, Germany, the Netherlands and Greece have joined Pax Silica, the US-led initiative to secure the AI supply chain across chi

Europe’s digital sovereignty era may have ended before it ever began. The EU, Germany, the Netherlands and Greece have joined Pax Silica, the US-led initiative to secure the AI supply chain across chips, critical minerals, energy and compute. But Pax Silica is not just about supply chains: It is about who gets to define the architecture of the AI economy. Jacob Helberg, the US official behind the initiative, explicitly positions Pax Silica against “digital sovereignty.” His argument: countries should not build duplicative national tech stacks. His alternative: “innovation sovereignty.” Translation: Do not build your own stack. Join ours. Europe spent years talking about technological independence. But when AI became material, when it became about chips, cloud, energy, minerals, fabs and export controls, Europe chose integration into the American system. Europe's AI sovereignty ended before it even began.