“The EU published a list of the 39 companies signed up to become part of the its Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud, after the region moves to lessen its reliance on U.S. technology firms.
Nokia Oyj, Ericsson AB, OVH Groupe, SAP SE and X-Fab Silicon Foundries SE are among the list of companies, which includes no American or Chinese companies at this stage, with the rest coming from industries such as telecom, aerospace and defense.
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The EU is attempting to become a more significant player in the cloud space, largely dominated by companies such as Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, with so-called “mini clouds” that wouldn’t be housed in a centralized server farm.
The alliance is meant to bring various companies together to build new, secure European cloud and edge technologies for citizens and businesses.
“Data will transform the way we produce, consume and live,” Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said in a statement announcing the launch of the alliance Tuesday, ahead of the list being published. “Europe has all it takes to lead the ‘big data’ economy.”
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It’s also working on a bloc-wide semiconductor strategy that aims to ensure access to what have become crucial components of digital life amid chip supply-chain shortages and the geopolitical challenges of a hardening U.S.-China tech rivalry.
Good
GOOD!!! We really need to get away from the west and east and have our own network, industry, etc. again.
Is it a different initiative from the clusterfuck of Gaia-X? If yes, I really hope it works.
I’m seething
Please be great
OK It’ll be interesting to see if the indeed can do without silicon produced in china…
Howlong before the commission ask for a public thing and pick a foreign company that fake its cost to f everything up because unlike the us and China we don’t protect anything
Good! European businesses should grow without Chinese or American influences
A great move to be self-reliant.
I hope that the project can quickly get up to speed and provide a rich feature set, similar to existing offerings.
Im confused about this. So these companies making the pledge will build their own data centers? Thats going backwards not forwards….
Theres no mention of a European AWS or GCP equivalent in the article, so how will Europe compete here?
From [here](https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/cloud-computing), the cloud effort appears to be a purely bureaucratic activity. The [goals](https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/cloud-alliance) of the Cloud Alliance referenced in the Bloomberg article also appear vague and bureaucratic. The alliance plans to “update horizontal and technology specific investment roadmaps “, “provide recommendations to ensure the coherent integration of investments” and “advise on requirements and standards, including for public procurement.”
This all sounds like political flim-flammery to me; I also wonder how long a committee with almost 40 members will take to agree on anything.
In the meantime, American or Chinese companies make and ship things, without waiting for recommendations or specific investment roadmaps. It’s no surprise that the USA dominates the list of the top companies in the world, and the difference increases instead of shrinking. See [here](https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/audit-services/publications/assets/pwc-global-top-100-companies-2021.pdf) for some pretty bad statistics. For example, when comparing 2020 to 2021, the average change in market capitalization of top companies was 48% worldwide, but American companies got 57%, the rest of the world got a respectable 42% increase, while Europe lagged everybody, with a rather sad 18% increase. The same report shows Europe also lost three companies from the world top 100 over the last year – not that it had that many to begin with.
Really good news !
The cloud space is hypercompetitive. I would love to see what their advantages is going to be. While it’s a neat idea… Unless they put any teeth behind it they’ll get put to bed rather quickly
Safe first
“Europe’s” cloud project. This solely allows for EU member States to make use of the cloud project.
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“The EU published a list of the 39 companies signed up to become part of the its Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud, after the region moves to lessen its reliance on U.S. technology firms.
Nokia Oyj, Ericsson AB, OVH Groupe, SAP SE and X-Fab Silicon Foundries SE are among the list of companies, which includes no American or Chinese companies at this stage, with the rest coming from industries such as telecom, aerospace and defense.
​
​
The EU is attempting to become a more significant player in the cloud space, largely dominated by companies such as Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, with so-called “mini clouds” that wouldn’t be housed in a centralized server farm.
The alliance is meant to bring various companies together to build new, secure European cloud and edge technologies for citizens and businesses.
“Data will transform the way we produce, consume and live,” Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said in a statement announcing the launch of the alliance Tuesday, ahead of the list being published. “Europe has all it takes to lead the ‘big data’ economy.”
​
It’s also working on a bloc-wide semiconductor strategy that aims to ensure access to what have become crucial components of digital life amid chip supply-chain shortages and the geopolitical challenges of a hardening U.S.-China tech rivalry.
Good
GOOD!!! We really need to get away from the west and east and have our own network, industry, etc. again.
Is it a different initiative from the clusterfuck of Gaia-X? If yes, I really hope it works.
I’m seething
Please be great
OK It’ll be interesting to see if the indeed can do without silicon produced in china…
Howlong before the commission ask for a public thing and pick a foreign company that fake its cost to f everything up because unlike the us and China we don’t protect anything
Good! European businesses should grow without Chinese or American influences
A great move to be self-reliant.
I hope that the project can quickly get up to speed and provide a rich feature set, similar to existing offerings.
Im confused about this. So these companies making the pledge will build their own data centers? Thats going backwards not forwards….
Theres no mention of a European AWS or GCP equivalent in the article, so how will Europe compete here?
From [here](https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/cloud-computing), the cloud effort appears to be a purely bureaucratic activity. The [goals](https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/cloud-alliance) of the Cloud Alliance referenced in the Bloomberg article also appear vague and bureaucratic. The alliance plans to “update horizontal and technology specific investment roadmaps “, “provide recommendations to ensure the coherent integration of investments” and “advise on requirements and standards, including for public procurement.”
This all sounds like political flim-flammery to me; I also wonder how long a committee with almost 40 members will take to agree on anything.
In the meantime, American or Chinese companies make and ship things, without waiting for recommendations or specific investment roadmaps. It’s no surprise that the USA dominates the list of the top companies in the world, and the difference increases instead of shrinking. See [here](https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/audit-services/publications/assets/pwc-global-top-100-companies-2021.pdf) for some pretty bad statistics. For example, when comparing 2020 to 2021, the average change in market capitalization of top companies was 48% worldwide, but American companies got 57%, the rest of the world got a respectable 42% increase, while Europe lagged everybody, with a rather sad 18% increase. The same report shows Europe also lost three companies from the world top 100 over the last year – not that it had that many to begin with.
Really good news !
The cloud space is hypercompetitive. I would love to see what their advantages is going to be. While it’s a neat idea… Unless they put any teeth behind it they’ll get put to bed rather quickly
Safe first
“Europe’s” cloud project. This solely allows for EU member States to make use of the cloud project.
Everyone not in the EU can’t use the cloud.