A look at EU efforts to cut reliance on US tech; study: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google hold ~70% of EU cloud and US vendors get 80% of enterprise software spend
Thanks to Trump, EU governments are trying to break their overreliance on U.S. technology. It won't be cheap or easy.
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EU Scrambles to Ditch American Tech Dominance
Europe wants off US cloud and software, but the numbers show just how deep the dependency runs.
The EU has a massive American tech problem and it's finally trying to do something about it. Spoiler: it's going to hurt.
The numbers are stark. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google collectively control roughly 70% of the EU's cloud infrastructure. On the software side, it's even worse — US vendors gobble up 80% of enterprise software spending across Europe.
Trump-era tensions have accelerated EU governments' push to reduce this dependency. But unwinding decades of deep integration with American platforms isn't a weekend project. It's expensive. It's complicated. And European alternatives remain thin on the ground.
The effort signals a broader geopolitical shift in how governments think about tech supply chains. Sovereignty isn't just about borders anymore — it's about whose servers your data sits on and whose code runs your bureaucracy.
Cheap this won't be. Easy it definitely isn't.