| The big problem EUs continuous big talk on digital sovereignty,
which is a good and vital concept, is that funding is ridiculously
lacking. Terms used like;
“European hyperscale cloud”
“Sovereign infrastructure”
“Strategic autonomy”
“European data centers for critical workloads” Which ended up in various efforts and projects Digital Europe Programme,
Recovery and Resilience Facility,
IPCE (I am not deeply familiar with EU projects) I believe funding was around low hundreds
of millions (€) total To build one hyperscaler region might cost around €10 billion. The second problem is that systems that were suggested
out of it still relied on US software stack, US computers,
etc. It is not like the EU member states could not fund it,
some estimates say aggregated EU and member states have
spent €350 billion in Ukraine. That is not to say they should not do that,
nor to suggest you have to chose one or the other
but it is demonstration
that EU+Member states can fund massive efforts,
If deemed important enough. and EU+Memberstates so far have not felt an urgency or will
to really invest in digital sovereignty. |