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Has "Europe is investing $X billions to rival $AMERICAN_TECH_GIANT" ever worked? I'm highly skeptical of planned enterprises. Inovation often happens organically.
They're addicted to that market and they(we?) need checks and balances to constrain that which we have wrought
I think there’s an opportunity for an IkeaCloud or AldiCloud that is just barebones and cheap but still is a proper cloud. Given that Microsoft and google are struggling to match aws it seems we’re still decades away from someone truly being able to deliver the same features, scale, and reliability.
Doesn't this already exist in the form of Digital Ocean, Linode/Akamai, OVH, etc.?
> “Amazon, Google and Microsoft are really good, but US authorities have the right to see the data stored on non-American citizens. That means that many companies and authorities in Europe cannot put sensitive data on the American cloud and instead store it on servers in the cellar,” Åström says. Isn't this FUD? US authorities can't subpoena data on a server in the EU even if it's owned by a US company
they seem to have misunderstood the why and the how of startup culture in the valley it has been a way to get startup entrepreneurs (founders) to absorb the negative cost of trying out new things; and whatever actually works well gets bought by an established winner. what's fundamentally unproven about how to build data-centers? this seems to be about using a different sort of 'power supply' for the whole project wha…
The EU passes laws which require data/compute/whatever to run in the EU. So a company springs up with a product for that.
Corporate fluff aside, AWS is on track to run on 100% renewables by 2025[1] so the selling is mostly "European cloud" since the green part will be mostly expected by the time they actually ramp up. Competition is always good though. > Studies by 451 Research have shown that AWS’ infrastructure is 3.6 times more energy efficient than the median of U.S. enterprise data centers surveyed and up to five times more energy…
For real or are they purchasing dodgy “offsets?”
I think there’s an opportunity for an IkeaCloud or AldiCloud that is just barebones and cheap but still is a proper cloud. Given that Microsoft and google are struggling to match aws it seems we’re still decades away from someone truly being able to deliver the same features, scale, and reliability.
Would never use a cloud service simply because "its European", it's got to be better and cheaper than AWS.
A lot of european companies would. You’d be surprised how often saas clients told me to _never_ allow client data to get anywhere near a us company. People around europe are very privacy aware.
Some people give it lip service in America for political points but they don't understand it on a fundamental level - most of them would turn around and complain about why google street view doesn't work in Germany.
I say this as someone who has bounced around between both sides of the pond
Corporate fluff aside, AWS is on track to run on 100% renewables by 2025[1] so the selling is mostly "European cloud" since the green part will be mostly expected by the time they actually ramp up. Competition is always good though. > Studies by 451 Research have shown that AWS’ infrastructure is 3.6 times more energy efficient than the median of U.S. enterprise data centers surveyed and up to five times more energy…
For real or are they purchasing dodgy “offsets?”
I'm sure this sounds great for the laymen and politicians, but does it really make sense technically?
I think there’s an opportunity for an IkeaCloud or AldiCloud that is just barebones and cheap but still is a proper cloud. Given that Microsoft and google are struggling to match aws it seems we’re still decades away from someone truly being able to deliver the same features, scale, and reliability.