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"Trump effect" leads to demand from European cloud providers

It is not only since the current customs chaos that European tech companies have seen more requests, according to a media report.

There are currently three times as many inquiries as usual," said Nextcloud boss Frank Karlitschek at a request from Spiegel. The magazine asked several European cloud and infrastructure providers how their demand has developed in recent months. According to the report, the tenor is clear: companies, authorities and private users are increasingly looking for alternatives to US service providers.

Raymond Alves, founder of the Digital Earth card service, even spoke of a "trump effect". This is how his company names the current trend internally. In the six weeks before Request of mirror won his offer 250 percent additional users. However, Alves did not give the concrete figures.

Fear of industrial espionage

According to Nina-Sophie Sczepurek from Leitzcloud by vBoxx, the motivation of those willing to change is clear. Customers clearly said "that they want to get away from American products." Ionos heard that "the uncertain political situation" in the United States also leads to increased demand from the security and defense industries. Frank Kalitschek from Nextcloud brings another aspect into play, but according to the report he does not want to refer directly to customers: business espionage. He fears the US government could use the data stored in the clouds as a "float deposit".

A countermovement of the trend away from US clouds is to adapt the previously strict EU law to the offers. As c't reports in its current title theme, there are "legal contortions"in order to continue using the popular US services. A central point is the, actually not DSGVO-compliant, data transfer from European servers to those in the USA including the legal access options there. There is an EU adequacy decision for the United States in July 2023. But since then, as is well known, the political situation has changed significantly.

"Out of the US Clouds" is also the title topic of the current issue 08/25 of the c't magazine.