US Citizens have some (reasonable) expectation they won't be spied on without some cause. They may even get back to that situation eventually through legal challenges against the supra-legal shit going on.

The rest of us, well, we were always subject to this oversight and it won't change. We just didn't have our noses rubbed in it very often and US media don't give a damn. I expect Chinese companies are just as paranoid about data flowing through the US as the US are about their data being in China.

It's a timely reminder for us all. Remember that putting your data elsewhere doesn't mean anything if (a) it transits the US unencrypted or (b) the parent company is US owned.

Sure, but unlike foreign countries, the US gov't and most US businesses have little or no motivation to get off the US cloud.

There will be private citizens who care and a few companies, but I don't think it'll impact the internal US market much. If you're in the US it's probably more effective to pursue political action rather than boycotting US businesses.

It looks like USG wants US companies to either run on a cloud that has an NSA backdoor to or to provide a backdoor to their own services.