[rossdavidh]

While there are certainly cases where European laws are crafted to help keep American companies out, this is not really one of them. It appears to me that the western European institutions have genuine concerns about American companies and three-letter agencies accessing their citizens' data, and by the way they are not paranoid to be concerned.

End result is almost certain to be more cloud providers in Europe, but I'm not sure they're wrong to want that.