The reason why Europe has no "proper" cloud providers is because Europe failed at producing an Internet giant. From the limited data sample we have, becoming a cloud provider requires two things: (1) Huge Capex and...
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... (2) cloud-scale software to actually run. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Tencent, Yandex all fit the bill. There is no cloud provider that did not satisfy both criteria. Trying to build a cloud provider without (1) and (2) will fail, for multiple reasons:
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A) The CapEx required in Cloud is beyond what any government can (and should) "subsidize": AWS and MS combined CapEx is ~$40bn, approximately Germany's defense budget. In order to compete effectively, a European cloud will need $10bn+ annually, for many many years.
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B) Building a Cloud requires cloud-scale applications. The infrastructure layer and orchestration is only going to be "right" if you have quick feedback cycles; there is a reason why all of the relevant players in Cloud extensively eat their own dog food. If you don't have ...
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... that, you will build a cloud that nobody wants to use. I mean, I am one of the most pro-European folks you will find, and left-of-center to begin with, but I tell you: The only way to get a useful Euro-Cloud is to have European Internet Giants.
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The way this project looks to me right now is the usual (sad) story of a bunch of incumbent Telco operators with a few universities siphoning off cash into white elephant projects.
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There's also the issue that the actual solution to building a European Internet Giant is sufficiently radical that nobody is willing to discuss it; so better to light a few hundred million $ on fire and then claim things failed :-)
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dedicated to advancing their own monopolies: SAP SE, Deutsche Telekom AG, Deutsche Bank AG, Siemens and Bosch. Do they have experience in anything which is not ending up as a monopoly?
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