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What if the U.S. cut off Big Tech from Europe? A nightmare for many European firms
2025-02-02 22:20
Imagine waking up to the news that Microsoft, Google, and Amazon have been ordered by the U.S. government to cease providing their IT services to Europe. No more Azure, no more Google Cloud, no more AWS. The fallout would be immediate and catastrophic for countless European businesses, exposing a deep dependency that few truly acknowledge.
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@adele I agree and would add another important thing - Europe on the EU level effectively does not have any working card payment system not tied to US (only on the levels of separate states). Block Visa/MC/AmEx and the consequences for the interstate movement of people and goods/money (one of EU pillars) will be devastating.
@adele Let's use AWS for storing all our files, they said, it's cheap and save and eternal. Let's use Notion as the only database, they said, it's free and accessed online. Let's use GSuite to store our emails and contacts, they said, as long as we pay we are secure.