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.