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by the8472 2235 days ago
> in large data centers spanning the globe, TCP’s flow control translates directly to poor utilization of expensive, high-bandwidth links between different data centers.

For internal traffic they have the option to choose custom congestion controllers that don't care about being fair to Reno and can also tolerate a few packet losses. Linux has offered options here for a long time.