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>can’t be compelled to handover to US law enforcement

Even if a US company holds their data in the EU, due to FISA 702, the CLOUD act and EO 12.333, they can still be compelled to hand over that data. So being a US company is a dealbreaker, regardless of where the data is stored.

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What if google uses EU based legal company?

https://cloud.google.com/terms/google-entity

Google would have to redesign their corporate structure so that EU customers of Google EU are never subject to US law, with no US-owned business anywhere in the subsidiary chain. Imagine that this is the current chain:

Alphabet (US) -> Google (US) -> Google (EU)

Under such a structure, Google (EU) is not GDPR-compliant, and will need to drop all upstream inheritance of (US) to comply with this ruling.

I am not your lawyer, this is not legal advice.

I doubt that US courts will fall for this transparent legal tricks. It's not Google, it's Google EU!

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