IN EUROPE, DISCUSSIONS are coalescing around an ambitious idea called EuroStack, an EU-led “digital supply chain” that would give Europe technological sovereignty independent from the US and other countries.
The idea gathered steam a couple of months before Trump’s reelection, when a group of business leaders, European politicians, and technologists—including Meredith Whittaker, the president of Signal, and Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s former minister of digital affairs—met at the European Parliament to discuss “European Digital Independence.” According to Cristina Caffarra, an economist who helped organize the meeting, the takeaway was stark: “US tech giants own not only the services we engage with but also everything below, from chips to connectivity to cables under the sea to compute to cloud. If that infrastructure turns off, we have nowhere to go.”
This article frames the era of tech as being put on notice by the enshitification of policies. But that only part of the story. The real crime here is that tools of war are flowing back through america. And if you want to run your F-35s you better have the tech to do so.
Quote Citation: HENRY FARREL, ABRAHAM L. NEWMAN, “The Enshittification of American Power | WIRED”, JUL 15, 2025 6:00 AM, https://www.wired.com/story/enshittification-of-american-power/