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Europe signs off on €1.2B for homegrown cloud project (www.theregister.com)
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I do wish EC pulls this off. It would great having an actual home-grown competitor to cloud providers. EU does data protection better than anyone else, this would very much be a symbiotic relationship.

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[-] tal@lemmy.today 10 points 11 months ago

Europe does not have the best of track records when it comes to cloud and IT projects. Gaia-X, a project to provide a federated and secure infrastructure, was proposed in 2019. As of 2023, it remains a work in progress.

Yeah, when I saw the title, I thought that this announcement was about Gaia-X, which sounded similar.

[-] taladar@feddit.de 4 points 11 months ago

proposed in 2019. As of 2023, it remains a work in progress.

This actually doesn't sound so bad for a large project but I am fairly certain it was proposed earlier than 2019.

[-] Anekdoteles@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

Gaia-X was such a typical conservative project it's even funny: deny reality and put the responsibility of policy makers on businesses.

If it would have been a good idea, private entities would have already started doing it. European tech didn't need ideological inspiration by politics, but funding. Money. They need money.

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