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Germany is in the middle of Europe? 3rd largest economy (by GDP) in the world? Lots of customers nearby? It has one of the world-wide largest Internet exchange

• openplatypus 3y ago
  > It helps to adhere to EU (-> GDPR) and German regulations having data local Not this again. The moment you transmit data to European based servers under control of US corporation you could just as well send it straight to the US. Same difference. Nobody cares if AWS, Azure or GCP have EU datacenters. They are for most part understood as under US control.
  • lispm 3y ago
    > Nobody cares if AWS, Azure or GCP have EU datacenters. That's wrong. For EU companies it makes a difference, since it allows them to be compliant. It may not be enough for you and me, but it is a huge legal (and also practical) difference. Generally I agree it is dumb to give these companies data (regardless where they are) and that includes already data from me as an end customer. They can't be trusted when it comes to data privacy or lawful use of my data. Still there is a difference of data being used for company/business usage or for intelligence. Generally the trend to host data in the EU and having regulations on the EU level is a positive trend.