Industry and government officials say Gaia-X, a project to reduce EU's cloud dependency on US tech giants, is hamstrung by infighting and bloated bureaucracy
The initiative, meant to boost Europe's cloud services, is failing to fix the problems it was intended to solve. Tweets: @laurenscerulus , @x__alternative , @politicoeurope , @erratarob , @hostilespectrum , @euclidiaeurope , @mr_james_c , @halvarflake , and @nicholasvinocur Tweets: Laurens Cerulus / @laurenscerulus : Gaia-X was meant to rid Europe of its dependence on foreign cloud giants. Our reporting shows the initiative fails to deliver on that promise. We spoke to insiders to reveal infighting, bloated bureaucracy & opaque processes. Story w @clothildegouj: https://www.politico.eu/... X-Alternative / @x__alternative : “One industry official closely involved in the work of Gaia-X called it a mess.” Quelle surprise. https://www.politico.eu/... @politicoeurope : The plan for Europe to regain its “digital sovereignty” didn't go down all that well. Gaia-X, a cloud data project that was supposed to deliver just that, is struggling to get off the ground sixteen months after the announcement. https://www.politico.eu/... @erratarob : This is an insightful description of the cloud business. But it also applies to any successful large-scale computer project: they started as something else and grew. https://twitter.com/... @hostilespectrum : This quote needs to be engraved on the door of every office working on combat cloud, JEDI follow on, or whatever successor efforts are dreamt up in which somehow .gov will generate comparable capabilities to private sector. https://twitter.com/... Euclidia / @euclidiaeurope : Politico mentions @EuclidiaEurope as one possible solution to creating Europe's digital sovereignty as Gaia-X seems to be failing to solve it. https://www.politico.eu/... @mr_james_c : Who could possibly have guessed this would happen?! https://twitter.com/... Halvar Flake / @halvarflake : You can't build a greenfield cloud. None of the existing clouds are greenfields. They are all outgrowth of ridiculously profitable and cash-flow-rich businesses. Building a cloud is likely the single most capital-intensive business you can be in. https://twitter.com/... Nicholas Vinocur / @nicholasvinocur : Top tech read today - Members of Europe's Gaia-X cloud project are struggling to agree on basic ground rules amid disagreement over the overall goals of the project and the role of foreign tech giants, Laurens and @clothildegouj report https://twitter.com/...