France and Germany tried their hand at a publicly funded Google (search engine) competitor [0]. It is also worth reading up on EU projects such as Galileo and Gaia-X. If history is any guide, it would not likely go according to plan.
Anyway, Gaia-X will definitely be a flop, or rather, will remain vaporware IMHO.
From linked wiki page:
> The consortium was led by Thomson SA.
As an ex-Technicolor employee, it doesn’t surprise me that this went nowhere.