TBF I also sorta just think Microsoft is generally stupid.

> Microsoft is using engineers in China to help maintain the Defense Department’s computer systems — with minimal supervision by U.S. personnel — leaving some of the nation’s most sensitive data vulnerable to hacking from its leading cyber adversary, a ProPublica investigation has found.

https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-digital-escorts...

After thinking about this for 90 seconds, Microsoft could license Azure tech to Hetzner or something. Keep the servers under EU control, but unless they share source code it’s still a blackbox.

Honestly everything used for anything serious should be open source and regularly audited. We need check each others homework.