EU is 450 million in population. Nevertheless, the statement is still valid, that this is a massive population size and it is not to mess with. But in pricipal, divide and conquer could break this up in to managable pieces.

https://publicai.co/ It has API which could be used when calling functions to chat or complete code. I played around with VSCodium and available gpt extensions and tried to replase api calls with calls to Apertus. I found that VSCodium extensions I tried were not flexible enough for this, but will try this path further when I get some free time. As of now API is free, but you have to register as a developer. EDIT: Open-source model, public organizations which is a huge plus from my view

Cars are difinitely thing of convenience. But as long as public transport exists, it is not a necessity. On another note - 2 miles is a walking distance, or at leats it should be for a healthy individual. If you had said 20 miles probably would have gotten more compassion in community against cars.

AWS as I understood is their hosting service some things might come from that point. But as previous comment stated it is better to have open model running on US owned infrastructure, since the model, when needed, could be migrated sonewhere else