@troed I'm no lawyer, but my understanding is if the infra is legally owned by an EU legal entity they can (at least in theory) say FU to the mothership
(they can threaten to fire the leadership ofc, but can't send them to jail etc.). This can also be used by AWS as an argument not to screw their EU business ("we would comply, it's just those picky EU judges!").
But yeah, we've seen how complicit people can become when they get nasty looks (see DOGE)...