This is interesting but let's give the cheer leading a break. What were really talking about here is corporations testing the size of their stick versus the gov

This is interesting but let's give the cheer leading a break. What were really talking about here is corporations testing the size of their stick versus the government's. The feds are pursuing a USA case against and american entity and the data in question is held by another american entity, which happens to have moved it to Ireland. Well why did they do that and when? Was is always there and will it always be there? In what country is the data chiefly accessed? If it is sent and received by Americans exclusively then perhaps the place where it is nominally stored might not even matter. In that case the place of storage would be just the kind of corporate fiction that courts are happy to pierce. What if the data is striped among all the countries where Microsoft has datacenters? Do you get the union of all possible data protections? Or the intersection? There are actual legal questions here and Microsoft's position is not neutrally good.