> The European cloud industry has struggled to take off, partly because existing players lacked the will or vision to compete effectively (among many other reas

> The European cloud industry has struggled to take off, partly because existing players lacked the will or vision to compete effectively (among many other reasons). The EU would have come after them. It is coming after Google, AWS and Azure even though they have diplomatic support from the US proper; how is an EU cloud provider supposed to compete? The people with the will and vision exist, if anyone can build EuroCloud they would be wealthy beyond the dreams of mortals and it really just needs to be an OK AWS clone. The unfortunate part is that anyone who sees that far can also see how the story will end when the bureaucrats get involved early instead of after they have multiple billions for compliance. It'll cripple any ability the project has to compete.