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

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

Let’s find out.

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

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

€115B into the European economy? Sounds great.

A clearly impartial and unbiased opinion. I believe the EU should give me a ton of dollars or its economy will collapse. I hope this well-argued opinion gets all the media coverage.

Fuck em

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.

Money not spend and value created? Win win scenario, just for a little hiccup during the transition…

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

Sounds like a very reasonable price for the benefits it would bring.

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.

How thoughtful of the companies profiting from Europe’s dependence to commission a study explaining why independence is too expensive. That’s not an economic forecast: it’s a ransom note with footnotes. Funny how €115 billion in supposed costs is terrifying, but decades of vendor lock in, surveillance, and lost sovereignty are apparently free. 🙈