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Gaia-X is a distraction which should be abandoned

It pains me that I have to write this, but Gaia-X is a harmful and expensive distraction, and it is not doing anything that will ever get us a “European cloud”, not even indirectly. Its very existence is holding back progress. For this reason, Gaia-X should be abandoned, and we should try to learn as much as possible from its failure, so we can try something else. I provide some inspiration at the end of this post.

I’ve only spotted two European companies that come close to credibly offering a basic set of cloud native services ( Exoscale and Upcloud), and neither is even of “megascaler” size. From the website: “an initiative that develops, based on European values, a digital governance that can be applied to any existing cloud/ edge technology stack to obtain transparency, controllability, portability and interoperability across data and services”. In addition, it is not clear how much money has been spent on Gaia-X (related) projects, but from looking around a bit, at least the German government appears to be paying tens of millions of euros per year.

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