OVHcloud chief talks up sovereignty discussions with the European Commission French cloud business, OVHcloud, claimed yesterday that it is in discussions with the European Commission (EC) regarding a possible migration to a sovereign cloud – in an X post that has since been deleted. The post, which now leads to a message stating "that the page does not exist" from the company's chairman, Octave Klaba, …
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/technology/us-tech-europe-microsoft-trump-icc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QU8.Kdfv.TlKKNX9udeIg&smid=url-share
https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3
The fuckers are even banning Calvin and Hobbes...
https://pen.org/magic-tree-house-author-calvin-and-hobbes-among-hundreds-of-tennessee-book-bans/
Europe, Canada, and the rest of the ostensible 'free world', have not yet grasped this. Carney in Canada is still apparently 'hopeful' of a deal with Trump. He forgets that Trump just breaks deals when he feels like it. As he did with Iran a few years ago, and has recently been demanding a 'new deal'. As though that means anything.
Trump is apparently comfortable supporting genocide of the Palestinians, and Canada has been silent. What make cretins like Carney think that bombs won't eventually fall on Ottawa if Trump doesn't manage to coerce Canada economically?
There is misguided thinking, actually a lack of thinking, in so many politicians: it couldn't possibly happen to us and this country. Trump intends taking Canada and Greenland. All those politicians which are silent today will become Quislings if they are lucky.
It's a pity, but there are a LOT of very stupid bible bashers in the USA. Trump has tapped into them, and we see the result. Genocide is OK as long as the right people are being killed.
a deal with Trump
The problem faced by America's ostensible/former allies is that their dependence on US military force and US technology can't be altered overnight, whereas both those things can be withdrawn at a moment's notice.
They're inevitably forced to do what it takes to maintain the status quo until there's a viable alternative in place. There was possibly also some hope that a "viable alternative" would simply be President 48. I think everyone has probably now got the message that the US relationship has changed permanently, but the divorce is going to be messy and costly.
If your a business based outside of the US and use American cloud providers then for most that will probably not be an issue, but when your putting government services on infrastructure owned and operated by companies in another jurisdiction that has laws that specifically says that any data stored worldwide by a US cloud provider has to be handed over the the US authorities if demanded to do so. Then you were a fool to have been doing so since the Snowden revelations, never mind now the orangutan is in white house.
No matter what Microsoft and Amazon promise they can't keep your data out of the hands of the US authorities unless the set up completely independent EU based company with no data, finances, staff, infrastructure or anything else shared between it and the US.
The problem is that if you are a, say, Danish, company and Trump decides to order US companies to cease service/trade to/in Denmark because Trump wants Greenland, you're screwed.
He's repeatedly reneged on his own deals, he doesn't care about US law or the constitution, let alone international law and treaties, Trump and his minions can't be trusted, the US is demonstrably no longer a safe/reliable/honest partner.
Sad times, but it's clear.
China has been reducing reliance for some time and has the scale/will to succeed, the EU has been far too passive, time to wake up and take action, India's protectionism has made it less vulnerable, the rest of the world lacks scale, but can at least try to spread risk rather than becoming client states.
"Isn't OVH the outfit that is best known for bots, spam emails and flammable data centers?"
bots and spam, I don't know, but, yes, definitively for highly flammable DCs ! It needed, I recall, 150 fire fighters went to extinguish their DC in Strasburg ...
Next, Klaba will give lecture the EC on how to secure DCs ?
But one thing is sure, the worst place to put your data in is an OVHcloud. Maybe the NSA won't tap in it but when it all goes ablaze, your data will have disappeared !
The Register 
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Copyright. All rights reserved © 1998–2025
