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by pkaye 2084 days ago
Can't the government refuse to allow foreign datacenters?
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The government did ban the data from being stored in foreign datacenters - that’s why the local datacenters are being built.
It's almost like poorly thought out government intervention has second order effects.
IMO, when your quality of life gets high enough, your lizard brain will find the most obscure problems to freak out about. From trying to avoid being eaten by lions to caring which continent the computers with electrons representing us digitally resides physically. What an amazing species we are.
Local Dutch municipalities are fighting for large datacenter. They promise them green energy