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The European Commission is providing 1.2 billion euros in state financing, 1.4 billion euros must come from the private sector. The first commercial results will follow from 2027.
The European Commission is providing 1.2 billion euros in state financing, 1.4 billion euros must come from the private sector. The first commercial results will follow from 2027.
The European Commission has finalized a plan to launch its own cloud project. It is pumping 1.2 billion euros into the project, with additional funds coming from the private sector. The project aims to stimulate local interest in regional computing sectors where US hyperscalers now dominate the market. According to a study by Synergy Research, Google, AWS and Microsoft control 72 percent of the cloud market in Europe.
Seven countries are supporting the project: Germany, France, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain.
The European cloud project is divided into four pillars: cloud edge continuum infrastructure, cloud edge capabilities, advanced intelligent data processing tools and finally advanced applications.
In the Netherlands, Leaseweb Global will work with cloud edge options. In total there are 19 projects that Europe is announcing as part of the cloud project.
Looking at the broader ecosystem, we can add five countries: Belgium, Croatia, Latvia, Luxembourg and Slovenia. If we look at the entire ecosystem of partners, the European Commission has more than 90 partners.
In Belgium this concerns:
In the Netherlands these parties belong to the partner network:
The full list of the European partner network can be found here:
EU Commissioner Didier Reynders gives an example of a cloud project in the presentation. “Take a project that wants to develop open source software that allows companies to create private clouds. You can then do this across locations by integrating sources from different data centers.”
Reynders also cites SAP as an example as a reference for cloud edge infrastructure. “This reference infrastructure will form the basis for future software development and will be a prerequisite for a Europe-wide cloud edge infrastructure.”
He assumes that the first results of the project will see the light of day by the end of 2027. According to him, the research is good for a thousand jobs in AI, cybersecurity, data, cloud and software development. With the start of the commercial phase, this number will increase by another 5,000 people.
The research phase runs from 2023 to 2031. It remains to be seen whether this project will be a success. In early 2019, Gaia-X emerged as a concept to create a European cloud in response to AWS, Microsoft and Google. In 2021, the number of partners grew to 212, but the project remains quiet for the time being.
Source: IT Daily
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