[benterix]

Interesting how this trick plays out. After drastic changes on the part of Trump, it became obvious Europe needs, among others, strong EU-based datacenters for public use ("European cloud"). Now, a big American cloud claims they will build an European cloud.

Who's going to buy it, though? AWS, Google and Microsoft do have European datacenters and many users here use these regions but the whole point is to be politically, financially, and "privacy-ally" completely independent from the USA. Not to mention Azure might not be the most secure of public clouds.

[fatnoah]

> Who's going to buy it, though? AWS, Google and Microsoft do have European datacenters and many users here use these regions but the whole point is to be politically, financially, and "privacy-ally" completely independent from the USA.

This is the real issue, IMHO. I work for a European SaaS and we've had a small number of customers ask about our plans to host our services in datacenters not owned by US companies.

[janice1999]

UK press and politicians were recently stoking fears of a software kill switch in US weapons, e.g. the F-35, that may or may not actually exist.

Who is going to believe Microsoft won't kill 365 for countries or organisations that earn the ire of the US regime or people who hold sway over its aging leader? Amazon just bent the knee (again). Facebook has done so very publicly. The disdain for Europe shown in the US Vice President's public speeches and private messages should scare every EU and UK leader away from US tech.

[toomuchtodo]

You legislate that after a certain date, EU firms cannot buy from US tech providers.