Hear me out 😶🌫️:
Why should we buy our computing hardware from the US, Taiwan, and China, when we could make it ourselves?
Same applies for solar panels and wind turbines.
Training the people and building the infrastructure would take time and resources, but the returns would be worth it.
I feel insufficiently European when my CPU’s silicon is cut in Taiwan, my GPU is american, my PSU is chinese, and my electricity is generated with chinese solar panels.
We must do better, we must institute a new metric: the percentage of objects with the “Made in EU 🇪🇺” flags that a European Citizen owns - with a similar mark applied to tools and services that businesses use.
This way we can incrementally work on increasing the percentage by training people and building infrastructure, with checks and balances to avoid overspending and to increase revenue.