Europe's Gaia-X cloud computing platform takes shape

At the initiative of the German Federal Government, business and science launch Gaia-X, a Franco-German cloud-hosting project.

This initiative intends to create the next generation of data infrastructure for Europe: a secure, federated system that meets the highest standards of digital sovereignty while promoting innovation.

The project seeks to create a European cloud computing platform in order to counterweight EU’s exclusive reliance on US providers.

Gaia-X will act as a standard-setting Brussels-based organisation whose objective is to define common rules for companies and facilitate switching between providers of data storage services so that American companies like Amazon or Microsoft.

A group of 22 French and German companies are setting up a new legal entity to run the project. Among firms involved in developing the platform are SAP, Deutsche Telekom, Siemens and Bosch of Germany and France’s Atos.

German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier and his French counterpart Bruno Le Maire will hold a ministerial talk today (04/06/2020) at 12:45