Sounds like short term pain to ensure long term sovereignty

Still cheaper than relying on US technology. Furthermore, the tech giants sided with Krasnov and the EU is telling them to get fucked. Kudos to the EU.

This seems to echo Trump’s hissy fit over NATO countries not paying their share of military expenses when what he really meant is that they aren’t funnelling more money to the US military complex and daring to spend within their own borders.

€115B for what ? Software to maintain cloud infrastructure is opensource, and lots of people who work on it are from Europe so if they can ditch US and join EU companies those fuckers will be in big trouble.

Cost who?

Translation: US Tech giants discovered their hostile actions cost them their customers.

I thought America didn’t need anybody else? According to the clown in charge.

Even if it where true: That is money well spend. 115 billion over 10 years is not that much for 27 countries combined anyway.

Afaik the EU27 public expenditure for 2025 alone was 9.32 trillion[1]. So we are talking about ~11 billion a year vs 9.32 trillion which is ~0.1% of public expenditure of the EU27. I think if we want we can handle that.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/GOV_10A_MAIN/default/table?lang=en

Edit:

Am I right in thinking that the study does recognize a spending shift towards the EU but doesn’t treat that shift as an offset against the 115 billion?

They really don’t grasp that the point of money is to use it to do things. Things that benefit, not just you, but your family, your community, your nation and humanity in general. They really think just sitting on giant piles of cash like a nesting bird is what it’s there for.

I swear the richer you get the dumber it makes you. Like I honestly believe there’s a point at which you get rich enough that the “Skills Atrophy” you see with people who get hooked on AI actively starts breaking down your own brain.

Canada needs to ditch US tech giants as well. Long live the Fediverse!