Europe will just end up doing whatever is cheapest. It's the same story as always. They'll say some stuff publicly but they'll quietly come back to American tech once they see the price tag difference. They're very cost sensitive and their investors are extremely risk-averse.

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ben_w 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

> They're very cost sensitive and their investors are extremely risk-averse.

Being risk-averse unfortunately now means "avoid the USA".

	▲	mdhb a day ago \| parent [-]
		With good cause

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tgsovlerkhgsel 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

With US tech now in profit-squeezing mode rather than user-acquisition mode, the cost sensitivity might favor switching for things like SaaS.

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refulgentis a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Would (gently) note that we’re commenting on an article re: American tech risk. :)

Not sure it’s really sunk in for my fellow Americans what’s going on, we’re not exactly used to consequences and it’s still considered, a best, impolite to treat a holistic evaluation of policies as something beyond debate.

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cpursley 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yep - just look at their oil/energy situation: they still buy it by the boatload from you know who, but just through 3rd parties.

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yurishimo a day ago | parent [-]

But look at solar adoption across Europe since 2022. It’s going gang busters and now with sodium batteries coming online next year, cheap home energy storage is about to boom as well.

Europe doesn’t want to buy Russian gas, but there is also the very real political reality of what happens if your citizens freeze to death. I will be very surprised if any EU state is reliant on Russian gas by 2035.

	▲	panick21_ 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		When people start talking about battery technology that has not even reached scale as any kind of political solution, you know people have lost the plot. Taking one look at just the cost required for the network, even outside of the cost of any generation at all, you realize this is an insane and slapping a few solar panels down is far from a solution. And also lets not ignore that places that have done a lot of the 'lets just build renewable and hope for the best' have very high energy prices. And maybe possible maybe sodium batteries might show up will not solve these issues.
	▲	cpursley a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That's positive news, but I'm talking about oil - which is still needed for modern industrial economies (plastics, diesel, etc).

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victorbjorklund 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

US says that Europe is their number one enemy. Using American tech is the most risky thing you can do since Trump declared that they are now a hostile enemy with intents of overthrowing European democracies.

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andsoitis 2 days ago | parent [-]

> US says that Europe is their number one enemy.

Pardon my French, but where do you get that nonsense from?

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talideon a day ago | parent | next [-]

The latest US national security strategy, one would assume.

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mdhb a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Without getting hung up on the exact phrase “number 1”. It’s very literally one of the biggest things in official US national security strategy right now and some leaks of the non-public version talk about explicit plans to try and destroy the EU. So semantics aside, the overall point stands on solid ground.

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disgruntledphd2 20 hours ago | parent [-]

That whole thing is just incoherent. There's lots about forming a trading alliance against China, and then loads about destroying the EU. You can't have both of those at the same time.

	▲	saubeidl 18 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Those fools think of Russia as ally against both.

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Aiisnotabubble 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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