It is easy to be a cynic and call other stupid. Reality isn’t so simple and one has to make priorities. The important thing is the legal, software and facility layer. Is that water tight? Of course not, but it reduces the ability of a hostile US to simply pull the plug or get the data via judicial coercion.
Getting a fully sovereign IT base is so difficult not even the US has it really. If we wait for that, we can just forget about it for the next decades minimum, is that what the author would like to see?
Exactly.
Perfection is the enemy of good.
Distribution of this stuff is a great start, a huge win I’d say. The more it’s diversified, the less central control there is.
That’s a known thing though. Sovereign tech is more about the software then hardware.
Microsoft admits that if it receives a data request from the US government for data stored in a European Azure region owned by a European company with no US presence they will have to comply. Intel, AMD, Seagate, NetApp don’t have that problem.
