Chapter 6 considers the Commission’s intent to reduce critical dependencies on third-country-based data servers and computing capabilities. It explores the Brussels effect as a motivator for further action on exporting regulatory norms concerning the protection of personal data and non-personal data, coupled with concerns over lack of competitiveness in data-derived commercial activity, particularly in the field of AI. Concerns over competitiveness impacting Europe’s security, and the risks posed by unauthorised access to industrial or sensitive data from the governments in third countries, the Commission desires increased regulatory control. This is facilitated by industrial policy aimed at both promoting European data server infrastructure and encouraging switching to those Common European Data Spaces as a means of building up a European data economy, while placing strict limitations on the export of non-personal data outside of Europe’s borders. The Commission combines this with an attempt to utilise the Brussels effect to ensure that European standards concerning the safe use of AI technologies become global standards shaped by the EU and its values.