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The US has plenty of internet exchanges. And plenty of smaller hosters with cheap bandwidth. Usually located near an internet exchange.

It's not like AWS or GCP have locations that are terribly far from major exchanges either.

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You still have to pay for cross-connects to connect to exchanges in datacenters.

> In North America, the median cross-connect price is $300, more than five times higher than $58, which is the median price in Europe.[1]

Of course, that difference means nothing to a hyperscaler, but it's led to a difference in pricing culture between the smaller providers.

1: https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/study-u-s-fiber-cross-...