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4 billion can go a very long way.
Believe it or not, straight to data centers
Datacenters are not inherently bad...
So what you're saying is.. they're inherently bad.
We are talking about developing alternatives to US services, which, surprise, will need datacenters to run. You don't provide email to 700 million people from an old laptop in a basement.
Not in government it doesn’t.