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Out of curiosity - do you also plan for the possibility that your will want to move to another provider at the same time as the rest of your industry if not large parts of the EU as a whole?

Whenever I think about these things I just don’t see us Europeans being able to tackle suddenly having to decouple from the US if Trump or a successor suddenly turns the screws to 11.

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Sort of. We're heavily containerized and have almost no reliance on Azure only services. So we could deploy it to any EU cloud, or even put it on our own hardware if needed. In the worst case, we could use work laptops as a linux cluster and run on that, though storage would be "interesting". That is my part of the business though. IT operations don't exactly have an easy exit if they're told we can't use Windows or Office in a month. Finance doesn't have an easy exit if they're told they can't use BC, and so on.

Basically energy production would have few isses with a disconnect from the US, regardless of where we'd have to go. But the business would struggle.

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