The flight from American clouds is real in mood and marketing, and still a sliver of the market: Europe's own providers hold about 15 percent of their home market, down from 29 percent in 2017, while the three US hyperscalers hold roughly 70. The legal case is real too. Under oath before the French Senate, Microsoft's own lawyer could not guarantee French data would never be handed to US authorities, because the CLOUD Act reaches through the German concrete to the American headquarters. And the EU Data Act bans switching-related egress fees from January 2027, so leaving gets cheaper. You do not have to move your company this weekend. Move one thing: spin up a cheap server in Falkenstein or Ljubljana, point something real at it, and see what actually breaks.