Europe needs hyperscalers (lots of them)

Posted Feb 13, 2026 22:31 UTC (Fri) by malmedal (subscriber, #56172)
In reply to: Europe needs hyperscalers (lots of them) by leromarinvit
Parent article: FOSS in times of war, scarcity, and AI

> cheaper to run your own infrastructure,

I think the real problem is that the people controlling the money don't understand the language of the technical people
they need to run the infrastructure. In particular, they have no real way of knowing if they even are competent at their job.

That said, there are a number of objective advantages to using something like a fully managed database where you just write the SQL and it just works the same whether the query needs a single worker for a second or ten thousand workers for an hour.

One thing the EU could do would be do mandate interoperability, force the vendors to agree on common SQL, common orchestration etc.

I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for this though, just mandating USB for phones took about fifteen years...

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Europe needs hyperscalers (lots of them)

Posted Feb 16, 2026 9:46 UTC (Mon) by taladar (subscriber, #68407) [Link]

There are pretty much zero advantages to being able to scale up to tens of thousands of workers for an hour for 99% of all applications since those run on a single small-ish cloud server just fine.

Also, I used to think the problem was that the people controlling the money couldn't determine the competence of the technical people but I think the evidence becomes more and more clear that the people controlling the money can't even tell if they themselves or their peers doing their job are competent.