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- BoycottUnitedStates@europe.pub
- BuyFromEU@europe.pub
- cross-posted to:
- BoycottUnitedStates@europe.pub
- BuyFromEU@europe.pub
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.
The first eu company that creates a solid aws migration tool will see a lot of customers when aws becomes non-compliant or subject to tariffs.
Of course they’ll need to provide solid infra to go with it, but the ability to replicate a company’s infra for testing would be massive.