Knut Michael Haugland
Founder building European cloud infrastructure with a focus on control, transparency and open systems.
About
I build cloud infrastructure in Europe, with a focus on control, transparency and long-term reliability.
I am the founder of WAYSCloud, where we design and operate infrastructure that remains within European jurisdictions and under customer control — without dependency on external platforms.
I care deeply about how infrastructure is built, who controls it, and what assumptions it is based on. For me, this is not just technical — it is about trust, responsibility and long-term sovereignty.
My work sits at the intersection of cloud architecture, operational security and digital sovereignty. I focus on how systems behave under real-world conditions, not just how they are designed on paper.
I believe Europe needs infrastructure that is transparent, predictable and independent — not only for compliance, but for resilience and long-term trust.
I write about the decisions, trade-offs and structures behind building and operating infrastructure at scale — based on practical experience, not theory.
I write primarily in English, with a focus on European infrastructure, sovereignty and systems.
Latest writing
- From Eidsvoll to email: Norway's Constitution Day in a digital age On Norway's Constitution Day, WAYSCloud launched meil.no — a Norwegian productivity suite. May 17th is about self-determination, and in 2026 that also means digital infrastructure.
- Helsinki Shut, NATO Scrambled: Drone Alerts Hit Finland, Latvia Finland and Latvia sounded parallel overnight drone alerts on 15 May. NATO fighters scrambled, Helsinki-Vantaa briefly shut. Read alongside two years of Baltic seabed cable incidents, the pattern reframes European digital sovereignty as operational, not theoretical.
- When Cyber Capability Becomes Something You Have to Be Granted Anthropic withheld access to Mythos, its advanced cyber AI model, from the EU while sharing it with US institutions. The story is not about nationality — it is about structural dependency, and what sovereignty has to mean now that frontier cyber AI sits closer to strategic infrastructure than to productivity tooling.