We are a bit further and - due to Big Tech lobbying powers - dark clouds are gathering above the Gaia cloud initiative:
From the article:
Corporate capture
Both Germany and France, who launched the Gaia-X initiative, emphasized the importance of the project being in independent hands – “a project driven by business for business” – and preventing the capture of regulatory agencies by the sector they are supposed to regulate.
However, the main danger for Gaia-X and its ambition to develop a competitive European cloud infrastructure and technological sovereignty is a different one: It is “corporate capture” – the reliance of many of the founding members of Gaia-X on US and Asian technologies […]
A sad reality: Public money spent to destroy European business
Note: A bright speck of light… the Euractiv may be interested to Help the lobby for interoperability standards.