| > I don't believe that hosting in the EU means you need to treat non-EU jurisdictions with EU law. Let's say to that I want to develop something that uses an "evil" AI and I only want to sell to countries outside of the EU, I just can't do that because during development I would be suffocated by unhelpful regulations while someone in the US doing the same would be not. > Most software businesses operate internationally, so the EU regulation is something you'll have to deal with no matter where you host, assuming you sell into the EU. Having my whole business being at risk is not the same thing as only having a significant market being at risk. > where you are headquartered as a business is up to you, and there are many choices. Yes and the problem I was pointing out is that I would unlikely to pick an EU country because broken legislation that would hinder me is not something I want to deal with. The EU problem is that legislation that is not around manufacturing is very knee-jerky, I don't feel like it would be a safe place for my potential software business, because legislation seems to be driven by headlines rather than rationality and the people making the legislations don't look too competent based on the end results. > In terms of being competitive, some European services like OVH, Gandi, and Mistral are absolutely competitive internationally Azure, AWS, Digital Ocean, ChatGPT, Meta, DeepSeek are a league of their own. |