14.09.2025, Moscow.
The large fine imposed on Google by EU authorities changes nothing in Europe’s fundamental dependence on US cloud IT infrastructure, according to Rossa Primavera News Agency‘s IT Desk.
In early September, EU authorities fined Google €2.95 billion for abusing its dominant position in the online advertising market and giving preferential treatment to its own advertising services.
In today’s world of information technology, very few maintain their own servers to run the services they need, since buying and supporting their own infrastructure is expensive and complex.
That’s why virtually all companies and government agencies use cloud providers, this allows them not to worry about hardware and focus solely on the software side. Cloud solutions also significantly simplify the process of writing programs themselves.
And in the European market of cloud providers, a trio of US companies — Microsoft, Google, and Amazon — provide more than 70% of all services. Among European providers, none can even come close to matching a single one of these companies.
Large businesses and even the public sector in European countries cannot function without cloud solutions from US companies. This dependence is critical in nature and cannot be eliminated quickly.
For Europe to become independent from the US in the cloud sector would require enormous investments, tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars, and at least several years to develop European companies from their current level to one sufficient to meet all European needs. No fines, even in the billions of euros, will change this reality.
Thus, the US trio and the US government have an enormous lever for pressuring European governments. They are capable of virtually paralyzing a huge sector of Europe’s IT infrastructure.
In the event of major contradictions between the US and the EU, Washington may eventually play this card of global digital dependence and strike at European infrastructure by simply shutting off the services of these providers.
Organizing such an action would be much easier than the sabotage of the Nord Streams, and its consequences would be far greater due to the unrestrained digitalization that has made dependence on information solutions total.
In fact, this is a real threat to the digital security of EU countries, far more significant than the mythical Russian cyberattacks. Yet Brussels prefers to turn a blind eye to it and shouting about the terrible Russian hackers who allegedly break into digital systems in EU countries and divert the plane of the head of the European Commission.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
