AWS and Google's lobby priced EU cloud rules at €115bn. Brussels estimated €18bn.
A study commissioned by CCIA Europe, a lobby whose members include Amazon, Google and Meta, says the EU's proposed Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA) could cost Europe €115 billion over ten years.
The Register reported it on 14 October. The European Commission's upper estimate is €18 billion.
The study, by a Brussels research group, says rules favouring European cloud providers would force governments and businesses to move systems and rewrite software. Rewriting and redesigning code accounts for 69% of its total.
It puts the public-sector cost at €33.3 billion. Private firms in banking, healthcare, energy and transport would face a further €80 billion, assuming the rules covered a quarter of their cloud work. The Register calls this a modelled scenario.
The lobby says the official assessment "missed 70 percent of CADA's true impact." Amazon and Google did not answer The Register's questions. Both sell sovereign cloud services in Europe, built to keep data under local control.
Most of the €115 billion depends on the rules covering private companies. Even with those excluded, the study's €33.3 billion public-sector estimate is almost twice the Commission's upper estimate.
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