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> This ruling stems from a decision made in 2020 by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) that stated that cloud services hosted in the US are incapable of complying with the GDPR and EU privacy laws.

So why can't google analytics simply be served/processed from an EU data center?

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Doesn't the CLOUD Act state that companies operating under US jurisdiction are legally required to hand over data outside US borders if the US Government was to ask for it?

https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/cloud-act/

There does, however, seem to be a section in which an order may be challenged in case the CLOUD Act conflicted with local laws.

Because then the NSA can't access that data.

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