is all this deserves in response.

Even if it where true: That is money well spend. 115 billion over 10 years is not that much for 27 countries combined anyway.

Afaik the EU27 public expenditure for 2025 alone was 9.32 trillion[1]. So we are talking about ~11 billion a year vs 9.32 trillion which is ~0.1% of public expenditure of the EU27. I think if we want we can handle that.

[1] ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/…/table?la…

Edit:

Am I right in thinking that the study does recognize a spending shift towards the EU but doesn’t treat that shift as an offset against the 115 billion?

Don’t forget all the new local companies and jobs that will pop up to keep their systems online.

“Luxembourg would apparently take the biggest hit, with the study putting the cost at €1,711 per worker over ten years. Denmark (€905), Austria (€900), and Finland (€864) also face hefty bills, as does Ireland (€856)”

So… the countries where hyperscalers avoid tax will no longer have hyperscalers avoiding tax in it. And somehow that’s framed as a bad thing?

forcing businesses to move away from existing cloud infrastructure could trigger expensive software redevelopment projects, with code rewriting and re-architecting accounting for 69 percent of its estimated costs.

~70% of it just to move to another hosting provider? hmmmm

Yeah, going from AWS to Hetzner will require doubling your SRE/platform/infra/whatever-you-call-them staff, clearly.

We’re on AWS at work. I use Hetzner personally.

The main issue with switching is the services. On AWS we use KMS, SQS, DynamoDB. On hertzner we’d have to run an instance with software for that ourselves and then rewrite systems and do migrations etc. That’s the expense.

Also KMS has no alternate because it’s not just software. It’s a HSM. So where do we store the master keys on Hetzner?

Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to do it, not up to me unfortunately.

From my software development standpoint that could actually be. AWS and azure have a hefty user lock in that could cost a lot to migrate out of

Those are the costs but aren’t there also earnings? The study seems to ignore the fact that money not spend in the US will be spend in the EU.

That is over 10 years. 90€ per worker per year is really nothing.

Translation: Luxembourg workers, who are some of the highest paid people in the entire world, would have to pay 171 euros per year to build out a European tech force that would benefit themselves.

That sounds… awesome?

Yeah, it’s a pretty small amount for digital sovereignty

Translation: US Tech giants discovered their hostile actions cost them their customers.

Goat Gardener says that removing cabbage from the garden is bad.

Canada needs to ditch US tech giants as well. Long live the Fediverse!

Cool, an €115 billion injection into the European economy and jobs which we would have wasted offshore for no benefit, let’s do it!

That’s it. It’s not thrown away it’s coming home. Software coming home

They really don’t grasp that the point of money is to use it to do things. Things that benefit, not just you, but your family, your community, your nation and humanity in general. They really think just sitting on giant piles of cash like a nesting bird is what it’s there for.

I swear the richer you get the dumber it makes you. Like I honestly believe there’s a point at which you get rich enough that the “Skills Atrophy” you see with people who get hooked on AI actively starts breaking down your own brain.

Robots will kill the need for roommates!

Money well spent 💅

My landlord told me it would be expensive to buy my house too and yet

Oh no… They’ll have to find some other countries to funnel their tax avoidance through. Might I recommend Russia now that Trump is pals with Vlad?

And staying with the USA might cost 100 billion per year in overpriced fossil fuels contacts and cleaning up USA’s military adventures.

Linux is free bitch

Totally worth it and we’ll recoup a large chunk since the money will be going to companies that pay their taxes. Not doing this isn’t even an option anymore.

I thought America didn’t need anybody else? According to the clown in charge.

Cost who?

And not ditching them would cost them €511B