The very short version: It has now become clear that European governments can no longer rely on American clouds, and that we lack good and comprehensive alternatives. Market forces have failed to deliver a truly European cloud, and businesses won’t naturally buy as yet unproven cloud services, even when adorned with a beautiful European 🇪🇺 flag, so for now nothing will happen.
This means it’s time for industrial policy, which requires politics to be proficient in “industry.
That isn’t good enough IMO. Obviously the EU should pass laws immediately requiring complete separation and independence from US counterparts and law, but all code that runs in the data centers should also be open for inspection, including the lowest level firmware.
Enriching big tech is terrible though, especially after they’ve bent the knee to fascism, so the long term goal should be an EU native cloud that has nothing to do with US tech companies.
That isn’t good enough IMO. Obviously the EU should pass laws immediately requiring complete separation and independence from US counterparts and law, but all code that runs in the data centers should also be open for inspection, including the lowest level firmware.
Enriching big tech is terrible though, especially after they’ve bent the knee to fascism, so the long term goal should be an EU native cloud that has nothing to do with US tech companies.