The Swiss Software Festival is about to kick off.
#swissSoftwareFestival
Safia Agueni speaking about women in tech and competitiveness in Switzerland
BaselTech, the University of Basel, and FHNW are present
600+ participants this year at the #SwissSoftwareFestival, braving the heat
So much talk about LLMs...
Interesting talk by Cecilia Rikap, economist at UCL, about centralisation, monopoly, and sovereignty. #SwissSoftwareFestival
She's on fire!
"Having a data centre on your territory is like having a military base of a foreign country on your territory"

Back home, have some time, so here is some context for the quote:

She says that people often say "the data centre is here!" in discussions about sovereignty, suggesting that the fact that the DC is on "my" territory gives me control over it.
But, she says, you cannot know what happens inside, and so it is much more like having a foreign military base in your country.
In the end, the placement doesn't give you any control at all, and so the argument is invalid.