Approximately 20 European cloud and infrastructure providers have launched a new initiative called Structura-X to build joint Gaia-X-compliant infrastructure services, emerging out of this year's Gaia-X Summit in November.

According to an announcement by DE-CIX last week, the Structura-X lighthouse project complements the existing industry-specific lighthouse initiatives for the automotive sector (Catena-X), the agricultural sector (AgriGaia) and the financial sector (EuroDaT).

The first offerings from the new project are expected in the middle of next year.

The common goal of the members is to form an ecosystem for European data sovereignty based on their existing infrastructure, enabling users to test and roll out services and data spaces in a Gaia-X-compliant infrastructure.