Here’s her own upload regarding it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeHxr14qStY

It was supposed to be read tongue-in-cheek, I know the UK is part of the big five that carries the largest financial burden of the ESC. :)

I thought it was part of their strategy to ensure they don’t have to pay to host the thing?

On someone else’s server, no. If you’re the admin of the chatmail server it seems to be possible.
https://support.delta.chat/t/create-a-normal-email-with-chatmail-im-an-admin/4401

Background on the Case

The DOJ first sued EZ Lynk in 2021, accusing the Cayman Islands-based company of violating the Clean Air Act by marketing and selling “defeat devices.”
These tools allegedly allow users to bypass factory emissions controls on diesel vehicles, primarily through the EZ Lynk Auto Agent app paired with an onboard diagnostic (OBD) hardware dongle.

From scrolling through the proposal comments it sounds like the proposals focus on NVidia/CUDA is the main thing to cause the angry comments when there are open source options to choose instead. That and the plagiarism from the AI models.

Not that my tiny customers have enough of an IT budget to buy their own servers with the recent price hike on memory and ssds.