[RandomLensman]

Large domestic corporates pulling the plug in a war seems unlikely to impossible as wars tend to go with what are effectively command economies.

[cryo32]

It's not just pulling the plug. It's serious economic disparity between regions and legally mandated espionage as well.

[RandomLensman]

If the EU had own large corporate hyperscalers that would be an issue there for the EU?

[cryo32]

Yes it would still. Which is why I think the process is misguided. I mean look at Hungary which was a near miss. It needs to be resilient to state failure as well.

This means that the entire idea of a corporate EU spanning hyperscaler should never exist.

[RandomLensman]

State failure is something the Europeans have experience in dealing with.

That aside: how much would that cost in lost economies of scale?