[projectramo]

I imagine a future where the workers are on the Irish side of the border but the servers are on the UK side of the border.

One still enjoys the tax advantages of the value being added on the Irish side, but also the relatively lax data requirements on the British side.

I am not pro or con anything, just pointing out the arb.

[anticensor]

Britain already adopted GDPR-based data protection law. If anything, Brexit will tighten the situation by requiring the data of British to stay in Britain.

[Zenst]

That certainly is an outcome. Equally does add more credence to the Google move as if the data was in the EU, then the potential to kick up a fuss and roll out laws to insist it is in the UK would play out faster than say that data in the USA.

Equally - I'd say costs may well play out more and what is the cost to host in Ireland compared to hosting in the USA?

Even when we are talking pennies/cents in difference - at the scale of Google - that soon adds up and if they can, they will.

[rolltiide]

Goals. I like our role models. I would have never independently perceived most of these opportunities and possibilities. Thank you Google and other multinationals, and the media for dissecting their expensive legal strategies.