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The Financial Times has published an argument for a US “social compact” on data centres, computing infrastructure whose expansion has become a policy question. The article’s summary says building them at home would let policymakers advance the interests of American companies and workers.
Why it mattersThat is a case for linking data-centre construction to national interests, rather than treating new capacity as an end in itself. What should a social compact require: jobs, investment in local infrastructure, or something else?
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