Economies of scale can make a huge difference in costs, and requiring all cloud services to be entirely domestic would greatly limit options and increase costs. If we can join the EU, then we'll be part of a big enough economic block to get full benefits from economies of scale and still retain data sovereignty within the context of membership.

Fuck US corporations, their lobbyists, the regulatory capture that leads to their anti-consumer laws, and trade agreements exporting their wealth-concentration laws globally. Disney, in particular, can get fucked with their life-of-creator-plus-90-years copyright terms. But I digress.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My vps is operated by an EU company, running on hardware in Montreal, powered entirely by Quebec's abundant hydroelectric grid. EU Canada all the way.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

OVH? I have a dedicated server with them that has been running for nearly a decade. I also worked at their old office in Montreal as a customer advocate and visited the datacenter in Beauharnois. It was impressive and it must have grown quite a lot in a decade. Even back then they were trying to get the government to host its data with them.

Unfortunately they also raised their prices recently.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, good guess. I do expect everyone to raise prices owing to the cost of ram and other hardware.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I was expecting the price of VPS and dedicated servers to go up but unless the IP shortage suddenly got much worse, I was not expecting these to go up too. My dedicated server still costs the same as last month, as opposed to a VPS, but I paid $16 more last month just for the same amount IPs I had before.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The only reason I can think of for Canada not to join the EU is the name. It sets my teeth on edge with the bad geography.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's the Holy Roman Empire all over again! And, today, NATO includes countries which do not border the North Atlantic, including several which are entirely landlocked. Or, my favorite, the Big 10 Conference in the NCAA has a logo that looks like the number 16, and has 18 members.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Ow! Stop! My teeth!