Nice… so we do something right when they “warn us”. Let’s keep on going.

And not ditching them costs us our freedom and future. Also, authorities in the EU and member states are spending billions on licenses and support, going to those US tech giants, every single year. And just for context, The EU27 spent 418B EUR on defense in 2025 alone. On top of that, that money would stay in Europe instead of being lost to the US.

Given that not even the US tech lobby couldn’t inflate that number to more than 115B EUR, makes it even financially a very realistic endeavor. Thanks tech oligarchs for confirming it.

Yeah, so how much would it cost to keep you? A lot more? Thought so.

Just as they warned Australia about removing algorithms from social media?

Their interests are quite clear to all but the most deluded.

Big headline, but check the fine print: most of that €115B assumes the EU will do something it hasn’t actually proposed — extending the rules to private companies. And the study was paid for by the very US tech giants who’d lose business if Europe buys less American cloud. They only counted the costs of switching, never the benefits. Take it with a grain of salt.

The US has sided with Russia. Dependence now carries existential risks for the EU, so the costs hardly matter.

Instead, lets try and imagine how much this emerging conflict between Europe and the US has already cost Silicon Valley in terms of lost revenue.

Europe isn’t screwing the tech bro’s, they screwed themselves.

Wauw, that’s cheap! Great argument to start pumping that money into the European economy with the benefits it bring.

You can’t put a price on freedom

Seems more like an investment than a loss.

Unreliability is worthless.

It could cost 115B for them ! 😎

That sounds like a bargain for sovereignty

Seems like a small number in this context tbh - if it were trillions that would be one thing, but 115 billion seems doable. Hard, but doable.

Even if that figure were accurate (which, as others have already pointed out, is unlikely) there is a finite payback period. And that’s not even taking into consideration the advantages of digital independence.