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It's not so much that Europe wants to ditch US tech.
It's more that everyone wants to ditch the current crop of leeching billionaires and their spyware products. It's just they all happen to be in the US which given its current administration is a problem.
However this push to use more open source and locally based alternatives proceeds Donald Trump's first term. It's just his rhetoric has accelerated the process.
Billionaires or no billionaires, I dont want my data in the US