[VWWHFSfQ]

Europe will just end up doing whatever is cheapest. It's the same story as always. They'll say some stuff publicly but they'll quietly come back to American tech once they see the price tag difference. They're very cost sensitive and their investors are extremely risk-averse.

[ben_w]

> They're very cost sensitive and their investors are extremely risk-averse.

Being risk-averse unfortunately now means "avoid the USA".

[mdhb]

With good cause

[tgsovlerkhgsel]

With US tech now in profit-squeezing mode rather than user-acquisition mode, the cost sensitivity might favor switching for things like SaaS.

[refulgentis]

Would (gently) note that we’re commenting on an article re: American tech risk. :)

Not sure it’s really sunk in for my fellow Americans what’s going on, we’re not exactly used to consequences and it’s still considered, a best, impolite to treat a holistic evaluation of policies as something beyond debate.

[cpursley]

Yep - just look at their oil/energy situation: they still buy it by the boatload from you know who, but just through 3rd parties.

[yurishimo]

But look at solar adoption across Europe since 2022. It’s going gang busters and now with sodium batteries coming online next year, cheap home energy storage is about to boom as well.

Europe doesn’t want to buy Russian gas, but there is also the very real political reality of what happens if your citizens freeze to death. I will be very surprised if any EU state is reliant on Russian gas by 2035.

[wkat4242]

The US would too if they had no choice. Which we don't, you can't just turn a whole economy around to become oil free.

Steps are being made but it takes time

[victorbjorklund]

US says that Europe is their number one enemy. Using American tech is the most risky thing you can do since Trump declared that they are now a hostile enemy with intents of overthrowing European democracies.

[andsoitis]

> US says that Europe is their number one enemy.

Pardon my French, but where do you get that nonsense from?

[wkat4242]

My Scaleway cloud stuff is way cheaper than AWS. Much simpler billing too.