- Flaxseed@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
Wauw, that’s cheap! Great argument to start pumping that money into the European economy with the benefits it bring.
- BigShammy80@feddit.orgEnglish2 days
Nice… so we do something right when they “warn us”. Let’s keep on going.
2 daysJust as they warned Australia about removing algorithms from social media?
Their interests are quite clear to all but the most deluded.
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.
- subOrange@lemmy.worldEnglish3 days
Money not spend and value created? Win win scenario, just for a little hiccup during the transition…
- UnfortunateShort@lemmy.worldEnglish3 days
115B one-time payment is not even that much for the entire EU lol
- nightwatch_admin@lemmy.worldEnglish3 days
Uhh that’s like
€3€300 pp right? Still sounds like an excellent deal to me!
- 3 days
Yes, but the hiccup may not even be so great, at least not monetarily, because the money is spent in Europe …
- Jiral@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
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.
- 2 days
Yeah, so how much would it cost to keep you? A lot more? Thought so.
- Anonymaus@feddit.orgEnglish2 days
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.
- metermatic26@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
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.
- Trebuchet@europe.pubEnglish2 days
And this €115bn isn’t over a one year period, but over an extended length of time (6-10 years). Honestly, the EU would be nuts not to introduce sovereignty requirements.
