In a new report sponsored by #bigtech they advance the argument that #digitalsovereignty will cost Europe €115 billion over ten years.

Leaving aside i) their obvious incentive to overinflate / scare and ii) this "cost" is also an investment / bootstrap of a new digital economy, it is funny to put in perspective of what bigtech is spending:

#Meta burned > €80 billion in one harebrained #VR project, in less than four years 🤣

https://ecipe.org/publications/economic-impact-of-cada/

h/t #theregister

https://www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2026/10/14/us-tech-giants-warn-europe-that-ditching-us-tech-giants-could-cost-115b/5303031

US tech giants warn Europe that ditching US tech giants could cost €115B

Amazon, Google, Meta among members of lobby group funding dire warnings over cloud sovereignty plans

^{Carly Page (theregister)}

The correct way to run a headline for this story. The reg does not disappoint

#uspol #routers #surveillance #privacy #nationalsecurity #cybersecurity #infosec #cisco #theregister

It’s a bit rich for #theregister to write about #privacy & then publish the article from a Cloudflared website that blocks Tor users.

@theregister, please fix this #hypocrisy.