[Slashdot] - Germany, France Launch Gaia-X Platform in Bid For 'Tech Sovereignty'

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Europe's economic powerhouses have joined forces to take on tech giants in the ultra-competitive field of cloud computing. Just don't rule out Silicon Valley quite yet. From a report: The idea behind the project, named "Gaia-X" after an ancient goddess, is to convince firms to store their data with home-grown alternatives to U.S. and Chinese tech giants like Amazon Web Services and Alibaba -- known in the industry as "hyperscalers." But Gaia-X will not be a cloud service in itself. Set up as a nonprofit based in Belgium, it's conceived as a platform joining up cloud-hosting services from dozens of companies, allowing business to move their data freely with all information protected under Europe's tough data processing rules, France and Germany announced Thursday. "If we want to have any chance to assert ourselves in the world as Europe, we need to join existing forces," German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier told POLITICO on Thursday, ahead of a joint web conference with his French counterpart Bruno Le Maire.

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