Costs to U.S. Companies from EU Digital Regulation

EU legislation targeting tech has grown exponentially from 27 pages in 2015 to 931 pages in 2024. U.S. companies are the primary target of this digital regulation, which costs the typical covered company $430 million annually per company in compliance costs. Opportunistic litigation, fines, and penalties are likely to add between $4.3 billion and $12.5 billion in additional costs annually per company. EU digital regulation also costs $14.8 billion in lost online advertisement revenues and $18.1 billion in lost platform, subscription, and cloud revenues across the five largest companies.