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How Trump’s Policies Are Escalating Europe’s Data Sovereignty and Tech Independence Drive
Firewalls are rising, alliances are fraying, and Europe’s digital future may be written in code untouched by American hands.
Data center Equinix AM3 (low-rise) en AM4 (high-rise) in Amsterdam design by Benthem Crouwel architects, completed in 2017 | Choinowski, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsWithin a month of taking office, Trump’s threats to pull out of NATO, make Greenland part of the US by hook or by crook, and end a traditionally close relationship with Europe to cozy up to Putin were already having an economic impact on the US tech business. During the first day at SUSECon, which this year took place in Orlando, Germany-based SUSE’s CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen and CTO Thomas Di Giacomo took questions at an invitation-only round-table presentation for the press. That changed when Edward Snowden revealed the extent of US government surveillance—just as the world was finally beginning to heed the warning that the once-innocent “don’t be evil” search engine, Google, had become an advertising giant with an appetite for personal data that rivaled any speed freak’s craving for meth.
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