Ultimately this is about many nations pursuing "data sovereignty" in lieu of having ability to completely wrestle domestic platform supremacy from Silicon Valle

Ultimately this is about many nations pursuing "data sovereignty" in lieu of having ability to completely wrestle domestic platform supremacy from Silicon Valley / US. Whether nations choose to pursue privacy/control is matter of their governing interests. And sometimes they're not even mutually exclusive, i.e. PRC data regulations calibrated to increase privacy from companies but not government. But primarily it's national security considerations like no-US servers / exporting data directly to NSA pipelines.