On 16 October, Arthur Mensch, CEO of Mistral AI, asked whether Europe should leave frontier AI to the Americans and the Chinese. His answer is no, and his reasons are the ones that drive us. The part of his article that hits closest to our work is about the cloud:
The cloud Europe left to others
Paid every year by European companies to American cloud and software providers
Each project’s share starts small. In the first hour of a project, a team decides where its code runs, where its data lives and where its requests are answered. Today that choice usually lands on an American cloud, because that’s where the tools are.
After that, the bill grows with the project: compute, databases, storage, bandwidth, logs. Leaving gets harder every year, because the application is built around one provider’s services and moving its data out costs money.
Why Europe has no answer yet
Europe doesn’t lack infrastructure. It has excellent data centres, networks and hosting companies. What it lacks is the layer developers use: one platform where you push code and it’s live, with a database, storage, a CDN and logs already in place.
The big American clouds are horizontal: one account gives you hundreds of services, one bill and one set of tools. No European platform offers that at their scale. Teams that want to stay in Europe end up wiring servers together by hand, or they go back to the default.
AI makes it urgent
Europe can train its own models. But a model is only one part of an AI product. The app around it still needs to be deployed, to store its data and to answer users quickly. If that layer stays American, European AI reaches its users through someone else’s cloud, on someone else’s terms.
Agents make the default even stronger. A coding agent deploys wherever its tools point it. The platform that’s easiest for agents becomes the default for the next generation of software.
Our goal
Eurobase wants to become the reference CDN for the software and AI Europe will build: a European network, operated by a European company, that deploys, runs and serves applications close to their users.
We’re building it from the developer side, because that’s where the default is decided. Available today:
- Deploy on pushFrom GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, Forgejo and Gitea.
- Workers and FunctionsFor web applications and backend code.
- Storage and a databaseFor each project.
- CacheIn front of every project, purged by tag from the API or by an agent.
- Built for agentsThe Eurobase MCP server lets a coding agent deploy a project and read its logs.
Next, we’re adding points of presence across Europe, so requests are answered close to the people who send them.
If your next project, or your agent’s, should run in Europe, deploy it on Eurobase.
