Trump's tariffs have "cemented the idea" that Europe can't rely on the US for its digital infrastructure, said CIVO's Mark Boost.

Thankfully, Europe has loads of homegrown cloud providers. The largest is France’s OVHcloud, which runs the world’s largest data centre by surface area. Others include Finland’s UpCloud, Switzerland’s Exoscale, Germany’s IONOS, and France’s Scaleway (the cloud provider of choice for French AI unicorn Mistral).

Political momentum on this front looks to be building. In a speech yesterday, France’s AI minister, Clara Chappaz, called on the continent to “work as a pack” to take on US “predator” tech firms, particularly in the cloud services sector.

https://archive.ph/03Ihx

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      3 days ago

      There was some recent cloud infrastructure project that was driven by France and Germany:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia-X

      I don’t know whether this is that or some new thing – the article isn’t really clear what this “push” is. If it’s that, then I don’t think that Hetzner is a member, because searching for “hetzner gaia-x” doesn’t turn up anything.

      It was periodically a topic of conversation on /r/Europe.

      It doesn’t look like Gaia-X is dead, at any rate, since I do see a news item posted on their web site two weeks ago:

      https://gaia-x.eu/

      So I assume that it continues to be a thing.

    • sudneo@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Way too small compared to the other ones mentioned. It’s great (and I use it), but they are tiny. I think you already have to contact support for having more than 10 machines or something like that, to give an idea.

        • sudneo@lemm.eeEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Looking online OVH has 10x the employees of hetzner and probably as much revenue, just to give scale. OVH also has like 43 datacenters. I think hetzner has maybe 5 and I am not even sure they run their own everywhere.

          OVH is quite big actually, I have used them too for some stuff (same for Scalaway, I think they are also quite bigger than Hetzner).