I guess the prices are for "EU owned" instead of "EU hosted". The data centers in the EU where you can rent GPUs is mostly US companies.
replyIt looks like a business opportunity, then, to provide inference that is EU-local and/or EU-owned.
replyIf there aren't enough businesses who want to do this, the EU should figure out how it can properly incentivise that to change.
Hosting anything in EU must cover redtape and carbon taxes in electricity bill.
replyThe markup is not going to the providers, only the router. It seems more like eurouter found a niche it can milk for a while.
replyThat seems pretty unsubstantiated. Hetzner proves that EU data center != expensive.
replyLow carbon does not equal expensive, either. Solar is the cheapest power generation method. Solar plus grid scale batteries is in the same cost ballpark as natural gas.
There’s nothing about data centers that is inherently a high carbon business. It’s only a high carbon business in places like the US where political leadership purposefully fights against renewable energy projects that private businesses want to undertake on their own dime.