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.
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…
115B one-time payment is not even that much for the entire EU lol
Uhh that’s like
€3€300 pp right? Still sounds like an excellent deal to me!
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. 🙈
Sounds like a very reasonable price for the benefits it would bring.
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.
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.
It could cost 115B for them ! 😎
Long term independence more important than short term money !
Unreliability is worthless.