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on January 18, 2026, 11:00 am, in reply to "Indeed. I'm suggesting they start rectifying that if it's critical"
What really screws Europe is our reliance on US IT infrastructure. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud are already bad but governments have been making deals with such horror shows like Palantir (both UK and Germany). Italy still considers using Starlink in their army.
Latter is easier to fix, but replacing AWS etc would be a monumental task. Pretty much every company relies on these services, if not directly then indirectly. Governments also have plenty of services that use these. There's nothing remotely comparable in Europe and building something like this would cost billions, and that would be cheap compared to migrating users to the new platform.
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I'm suggesting Europe does too.
It seems that manufacturing wasn't the regrettable fly in the "services" ointment that our betters insisted it was doesn't it? Who could have foreseen such a thing?
I wonder if the consequences will be pleasant. And if it turns out there will be sufficient bunkers for the architects of this mess.
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