European organizations aiming to reduce reliance on American cloud providers face substantial challenges, primarily stemming from inadequate datacenter capacity. Analysts indicate that it could take decades to build enough local capacity to meet current demand. The European Commission is reportedly acknowledging the unrealistic nature of this goal. Despite desires for local alternatives, companies remain heavily reliant on major US providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, which dominate over 70 percent of the European market. Experts indicate that while repatriating data to European clouds is theoretically possible, practical barriers complicate this transition.
If everybody in Europe was to move to the public cloud, it would still take about 20 years (based on historical build rates) to build enough capacity to meet the demand as it stands today ...
Decoupling is unrealistic and cooperation will remain significant across the technological value chain, a draft of the EC document states, according to Politico.
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