- cross-posted to:
- BuyFromEU@europe.pub
- cross-posted to:
- 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.
Gaia-X is not really a cloud infrastructure project as it doesn’t aim to be the next hyperscaler, it’s a project that develops new interfaces and standards that can be used by others so that an open and decentralized european cloud infrastructure becomes possible.
More context: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/gaia-x-is-an-expensive-distraction/