@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante Add Aurora @tunubesecamirio - she is an amazing activist and public speaker with profound crutucism on AI for ecosocial reasons.

The name of their activist project, Tu Nube Seca Mi Rio, is so wellchosen, so visual for the damage these hyperscalers are making. Worth checking a translator for, careful with the LLMs though

Now, of course a #BuyEurope campaign may help mobilise some to Europe, but how do we avoid growing European #BigTech in the process?

I think the answer lies in combining #commons with #cooperativism and free/libre open source as a precondition. These three traditions bring thousands of years, centuries and decades of experience to the table respectively, and bringing them together is the sweetspot, the win-win-win, for people, planet and collective profit.

@DigitalCoup @andreas @ela

Just to not forget the economic extraction that we're suffering from BigTech. Only the cloud services business in Europe extracts some 264B €, as calculated in the Asterès Report.

That generates an estimated 2 million jobs in the US instead of generating them in our local communities.

That's one of the costs of NOT having #DigitalAutonomy and #TechnologicalSovereignty

Here in English: https://www.cigref.fr/wp/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/TECHNOLOGICAL-DEPENDENCE-ON-AMERICAN-SOFTWARE-AND-CLOUD-SERVICES-AN-ASSESSMENT-OF-THE-ECONOMIC-CONSEQUENCES.pdf

cc @DigitalCoup #BigTech #extraction