Wouter Tebbens ⁂ on Nostr: #DigitalSovereignty is at the top of the political agenda, finally, that's good. But ...
#DigitalSovereignty is at the top of the political agenda, finally, that's good. But strange things (or not so much) are happening.
Like this one: The Luxembourg gov is moving to Google Distributed Cloud, see
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/luxembourg-govt-launches-sovereign-cloud/ and it is framed as "sovereign".
The Dutch minister for Digital Affairs (outgoing) is so inspired and might follow.
But wait a minute: a managed cloud service by Google, how much sovereignty does that give to you?
Seems more like a case of #SovereigntyWashing
Published at
2025-06-04 08:01:12 UTCEvent JSON
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