* 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?