You're right: In fact, the world wide web, needs a public cloud. If Canadians get one, that is a step toward helping everyone in cyberspace. I hope this effort succeeds.
Building a Canadian or EU cloud should not be to difficult for most purposes unless your apps use all the fancy features big tech offers. These clouds can only be built with US IT hardware because Canada and EU don't have local manufacturers of servers, switches & routers etc.
But how can we get IT hardware manufacturing business back, the is absolutely nothing so needs to start from the ground up. And that takes many many years.
Maybe we can use some form of licencing to get started.
I bet other countries would help pay the bill for something like this to get away from US companies. And if you put the data centers far enough north, they would need less electricity as the climate would naturally keep them cooler. 😉
You're right: In fact, the world wide web, needs a public cloud. If Canadians get one, that is a step toward helping everyone in cyberspace. I hope this effort succeeds.
Could the giant US enterprises not be forced to localize their cloud resources? In fact are they not localized to some extent already?
Building a Canadian or EU cloud should not be to difficult for most purposes unless your apps use all the fancy features big tech offers. These clouds can only be built with US IT hardware because Canada and EU don't have local manufacturers of servers, switches & routers etc.
But how can we get IT hardware manufacturing business back, the is absolutely nothing so needs to start from the ground up. And that takes many many years.
Maybe we can use some form of licencing to get started.
So that the government can spy even more on us and waste even more money.
I bet other countries would help pay the bill for something like this to get away from US companies. And if you put the data centers far enough north, they would need less electricity as the climate would naturally keep them cooler. 😉