AfD Kompakt, April 6, 2021
The tug-of-war over “Gaia-X” strikingly recalls that over “De-Mail”,
which indeed was celebrated as a breakthrough yet could never make it to
market. Meanwhile, 212 IT firms and research facilities – among which in part
are questionable businesses like the Chinese tech giants Alibaba and Huawei,
Amazon, Google, Microsoft and, due to closer ties to the U.S. military, the criticized
firm Palantir – belong to the so-called European cloud alliance.
Why any firm, from which by the creation of the “Gaia-X”
cloud it was actually desired to be independent, is now prominently included in
the development process is not disclosed to me. Obviously, the sense of the
required technological sovereignty of Europe – to which the “Gaia-X” cloud
should essentially contribute – is ever still too little defined. It must be
carefully examined whether it corresponds to the interests of Europe and
Germany when these businesses receive promotion funds and access to relevant
information from the development process. In doubt, the answer must be “Nein”.
[trans: tem]
