Bob HannentApr 23
Interesting, companies and institutions across Europe are looking at cloud providers who aren't under US jurisdiction.
And the message is it doesn't have to be better, it just has to be good enough and sovereign.
https://youtu.be/yU70qYau3gU
USA Freaks Out: Amazon DITCHED for Lidl - Dutch Central Bank Exits Amazon, €11B Investment

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@bobdvb

Yes, indeed.

https://ft.com/content/08eb1b45-91c2-4312-9d3c-ac5e4e557278

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_833

El reads these things so we don't have to. (-:

The slight caveat is that the #HouseOfEl thumbnails and titles have a tendency to use the present tense for things that haven't quite happened yet.

#EUPolitics #DigitalSovereignty

How Lidl accidentally took on the big guns of cloud computing

A unit of Europe’s largest retailer is offering IT services to companies wary of big providers such as Amazon and Google

Financial Times
Apr 23 at 7:13pmWeb
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I've not been entirely convinced by the few videos I've seen of hers, but that one worked.
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@bobdvb

I'm still waiting for the present tense statement from March 2026 to come true. (Admittedly, two wars starting at the end of that month changed everyone's predictions, including mine. But it was still the wrong tense at the time.)

#HouseOfEl isn't perfect. But I keep having to battle YouTube recommending a lot worse, and usually the source material is on-screen and can be checked, and is generally of better quality than just random web loggers.

https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/116273046269114620