I don't think the HN crowd realize how much the whole political EU Cloud is another edition of a money grab by a group of insiders that happen every few years.

Please read about the previous initiatives like Cloudwatt involving the same actors (Thales, etc.) [0]

I have been forced to consider them about 10 years ago and realized at the time that the French telco Orange (who acquired it in 2015) just transferred all control to Huawei (datacenters in France but controlled by Huawei). So all the organisations who put their precious data in a sovereign EU cloud was now in the hand of the Chinese. It took me a while to understand because they would hide it first and strangely the wikipedia article does not mention it.

So it was fun while the initial public money was flowing but right after that they just throw their "client" under the train.

If you want an European cloud, companies like Hetzner are good. But please do not get to excited by all the other announcements.

- [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudwatt