Valarian CBO @neemustafa explains why Europe wants independence from American AI: The US government can compel American tech companies to hand over data stored anywhere in the world. "The European Union has 450 million people. It's larger than the United States. But when people think about technology in the EU, it doesn't make sense proportionally relative to the population, relative to the wealth." "Many years ago the US passed the CLOUD Act, which allows the American government to compel any American company that stores data anywhere in the world to share it. The hyperscalers are all American. The frontier labs are all American." "I'm a proud American. It's not anti-American. People should have choice.” "If you can't choose it, you don't have sovereignty. In the same way, in democracy, if you can't vote, you don't have sovereignty." @Valarian