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by fc417fc802 77 days ago
Being positioned to eat shit better than anyone else is still eating shit. Our economy isn't independent of the rest of the world.

Datacenter investment is currently a noticable fraction of US GDP. That's as globalized as it gets, we aren't even remotely self sufficient on that front. What happens to our economy if that segment crumbles overnight?