> The EU part cannot be owned by the US entity since the US government can compel the US mother company to have it's subsidiary hand over data.

As it stands, the US part can be owned by a EU company. Or, probably more realistically, both EU and US parts could be owned by a mail box in the Caimans.

> The EU part cannot be owned by the US entity since the US government can compel the US mother company to have it's subsidiary hand over data.

Is this true for ownership by individuals too?

If I, an American citizen & resident, owned and operated a company registered to a European nation to serve my European customers (with European hosting), does that make me compliant? Does an American solo founder have a path to compliance at all, or would I be required to collaborate with a completely separate workforce that has no ties to America?

MS did the same in Germany with Deutsche Telekom as a partner, that shut down around 2018 [1].

[1]: https://nextcloud.com/blog/microsoft-and-telekom-no-longer-o...

Hmm, that's interesting. I suppose more cloud providers could do something like that, for the benefit of customers and GDPR?

E.g. Amazon already bills me through some Norwegian entity of some kind, to get VAT done right etc.

If they had servers in Norway, I suppose it would have been possible to proxy everything - not just billing - in AWS Norway through this sub operator?