[adamcharnock]

I only have partial information here - and that is that I’ve heard connectivity is generally much cheaper in the EU. And I can see why too: denser population, smaller distances between population centres, close to other continents.

But I’d be interested in any other reasons people can give.

[maicro]

I was going to add on here that I thought electricity prices might be cheaper as well - I swear I saw recently some EU country was basically fully powered by renewable energy for some period of time, so electricity costs basically went negative - but a quick search shows I'm completely wrong[0]...

[0] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=18851 - first .gov resource with relevant data directly on the page, that I found in ~30 seconds of searching. It is from 2014 though, so no guarantee how valid it still is...

[sshine]

Europe has by far the highest cost of electricity worldwide:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/cost-of-e...

[adamcharnock]

Additional thought: How competitive are the two markets? Does the USA have fewer second-tier cloud providers, and the market is just dominated by AWS/Google/Microsoft?

EU customers can naturally use those services, but there is a demand for local/EU-sovereign providers. Perhaps this demand provides enough fuel to maintain a robust & competitive ecosystem of smaller cloud providers?