“We can tell you what it will cost, when it will be finished, or what it will do. Pick at most two.” Or, honestly, just one.

But how to get to that European cloud?

One major problem is that businesses and governments are very clear about not wanting to deal with new things. The European Commission, for example, is currently in a ridiculous legal battle against its own privacy watchdog just to keep using Microsoft 365. Or take the Dutch Ministry of the Interior, which shares the IP addresses of all its secret service job applicants with Google because it’s supposedly tens of thousands of euros per year cheaper than European alternatives. These are strong signals.

Relevant: This article is part of a series of posts on (European) cloud challenges.