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by ReleaseCandidat 1617 days ago
Data centers cost money. They need incentives (read: high fines) to do that.
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https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/

Turns out, shockingly, that Google already have some in the EU for some totally unknown reason. Might have something to do with making $XX billion in the region each year.

This ruling doesn’t have enforcement recommended (yet), but under GDPR, the EU's data protection authorities can impose fines of up to up to €20 million, or 4% of worldwide revenue for the preceding financial year, whichever is higher. I’m not sure whether this offense would rise to the full 4%, or only a lesser 2%, if it came to enforcement.

https://gdpr.eu/fines/