I think it's good news as OVH is very competitive with its pricing. With 12 addtional datacenters, I hope they can deflate the prices outside their current mark

I think it's good news as OVH is very competitive with its pricing. With 12 addtional datacenters, I hope they can deflate the prices outside their current markets. Last time I looked, South America and Asia were like an order of magnitude more expensive. I worried they'd try to spend all their money on distractions, like an AWS competitor, an ISP in France, a conference, a magazine with a headshot of the founder, ..., which they're all still doing. Now I can hope most of the money is used for scaling the good part. They really have issues with product bloat, always adding new stuff, never cleaning things up. For instance, their previous admin web UI lasted for like a decade. It was full of icons for obscure features (but icons are so user-friendly, you know) and hyperlinks were javascript-activated because DHTML was all the rage back then. The new UI is better but already suffering from the dozens of things it has to support to reach parity with the previous feature set. They seem to be pretty good with building datacenters and getting peering/transit deals, not so much with software. I hope they realize it.