I think the point is that your doctor or civil servant or local sushi shop shouldn't have to reach to AWS/GCP/Oracle each time they want to look up an MRI or building permit or loyalty points card status.
"local" is a relative term here.
The fundamental problem with SaaS and pure server side applications is we do not know where the data are. With local first we can verify data locality.
Looking forward to Jeff deciding which party wins next year!
Governements could and absolutely should be subsidisng home-grown data centres. And taxing the hell out of every square metre of AWS and Google data centres. Why not have a data tax for foreign companies?
Or we do this centrally, ie cloud, and only need a single security implementation and audit.
The problem isn’t the cloud, it’s private cloud by foreign companies with zero consequences for failures.