I’d definitely consider it being manufactured in the EU (given the privacy laws and generally responsible nature of some of the governments around this sort of stuff) to be a perk. I don’t really think the US government is spying on us through our “management engines” and that kind of stuff, but it would be a nice perk, to be 100% certain.

Or at least require things like intel ME to be forbidden on any computer used by the administration, forcing chip makers to provide alternatives.