For digital providers, most clients fall again on gives from US suppliers. The Bundeskartellamt now needs to verify their cloud providers. The head of the establishment already warns of a lack of sovereignty.
The Bundeskartellamt is focusing on the suppliers of cloud providers. “There are only three large companies that offer really extensive cloud services: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. They have strong incentives to use their market power,” stated Andreas Mundt, President of the Federal Kartellamt, in an interview with Welt on Sunday.
You have a look at this very intensely. “The question is whether there are so-called lock-in effects: How difficult do you make it difficult for customers to change the cloud?”
Mundt warned that the ability of the tech giants might improve by synthetic intelligence (AI).
“Meta has the data of 3.2 billion users worldwide, Google has YouTube and the best search index in the world. We are in a crucial phase because the big tech companies are involved in expanding with AI,” he stated.
The cartel workplace is already finishing up procedures during which the use and results of AI is the topic. The regulation of the digital business is “not just about competition, but about the sovereignty of Europe,” stated Mundt.
“It cannot be that our digital infrastructure is permanently completely in the hands of other powers. We need our own digital ecosystem.”
Philipp Vetter And Daniel Zwick are energetic for the world and “Business Insider” in Berlin.
https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article256350562/Lock-in-Effekte-Kartellamt-ueberprueft-Marktmacht-von-Google-Microsoft-und-Amazon.html