☁ #evroc, who see technological independence from the 🇺🇸 as a critical aspect of digital sovereignty, has secured €15m in seed funding and plans to build eight data centres in #Europe in the next five years.

The first will be a large pilot data centre in #Sweden next year.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66310714

A good intro article on data privacy, why end users should care where companies store your data, being stuck between EU GDPR and US laws, and what companies including #Ionos and #Evroc are doing in this space including the Gaia-X project which aims to get independence from US/China digital infrastructure and enable federation between providers: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66310714
https://www.ionos.com/digitalguide/server/know-how/what-is-gaia-x/
https://gaia-x.eu/what-is-gaia-x/vision-and-mission/