# It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds

DevFeed: [It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/it-is-no-longer-safe-to-move-our-governments-and-societies-to-us-clouds-36602.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/you-can-no-longer-base-your-government-and-society-on-us-clouds/>)

Published: 2025-02-23T11:15:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Bert Hubert's writings](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/bert-hubert-s-writings.md>)

Topics: [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>)

Tags: [autonomy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/autonomy.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [google](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google.md>), [government](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/government.md>), [politics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/politics.md>), [trump](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/trump.md>)

## AI overview

This opinion argues that European governments and societies should stop increasing their dependence on US cloud services. It criticizes convenience- and cost-based justifications for transferring government systems and data to American providers, using a Dutch government job site and Google as an example.

## Source excerpt

The very short version: it is madness to continue transferring the running of European societies and governments to American clouds. Not only is it a terrible idea given the kind of things the "King of America" keeps saying, the legal sophistry used to justify such transfers, like the nonsense letter the Dutch cabinet sent last week, has now been invalidated by Trump himself. And why are we doing this? Convenience.