Articles building up to a coherent European/non-US cloud strategy

2 ifthenelseor 2 6/22/2025, 12:26:13 PM berthub.eu ↗

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ifthenelseor · 7h ago
* Taking the Airbus to the IKEA Cloud.

* However, you can still deliver services without US clouds

* Massive outsourcing has made organizations somewhat helpless

* Don’t say ‘Europe Must Invest in XYZ’.

* GAIA-X will not save us

* The cloud is not just one thing. On many important levels, Europe can deliver

* However, we should be clear on what we don’t have here

* When “going to the cloud”, do be clear how deeply dependent you want to become

* IT systems are already brittle. Getting your cloud from another continent is then not helpful

* It is not the case that only the hyperest of hyperscalers can compete

* You can’t run a government without privacy & if you need US permission to function at all

* The EU-US privacy framework is near-death and you can’t rely on it anymore

* Open source will be part of the solution, but much more is needed

* We have amazing open (source) technology, but it needs to up its game

* European Governments are already overly deep into US clouds

* Trump 2.0 will exploit our total dependency on US services

* European governments will need to do industrial policy to get us out of this mess

* Is this a sovereign cloud?