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If you look at other countries/regions that impose high tariffs, their companies continue to buy and use American technologies and absorb the cost (to their loc

If you look at other countries/regions that impose high tariffs, their companies continue to buy and use American technologies and absorb the cost (to their local customers' detriment). I'd certainly enjoy the case studies of European enterprises jumping from full-scale Azure and AWS deployments to OVHcloud or Hetzner, though. That'd make for some interesting reading.

toomuchtodo 2y ago
But what if they outright ban it, as the US was going to do with TikTok (for national security reasons)? This it the tech services version of Nord Stream.
- VSerge 2y ago
  Impossible, even in the current crazy atmosphere. An actual ban would mean an all-out commercial war and a very serious dent in globalization.
  - toomuchtodo 2y ago
    We are rapidly approaching that point. Globalization is over. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5_4DvPO-7w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5_4DvPO-7w https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/20/airbus-could-prioritise-non-us-deliveries-if-tariffs-impede-trade.html https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/20/airbus-could-prioritise-non-...
- Marsymars 2y ago
  It's not really workable. The real-world impact of a TikTok ban, even if it outright stopped working on every American device overnight is pretty minimal; people stop watching videos, and some influencers lose their jobs. If my (Canadian) government decides to ban Azure in a year, my critical infrastructure company ignores it for 11 months because they figure it won't actually happen, and then goes to the government to tell them that if the ban actually goes through, our infrastructure stops working because we'd actually need a multi-year timeframe to migrate off of Azure.