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New York's data center moratorium, Utah's forced downsizing, and capital fleeing to India and orbit show permitting, not GPUs, now gates AI scale.
AWS swapped hierarchical fat-tree fabrics for quasi-random flat meshes with passive optical ShuffleBoxes, cutting routers 69% — and the logic will spread.
Google Cloud deleted a $124B fund's entire infrastructure, replicas included. The only thing that saved it was a backup Google didn't control.
Bot traffic has quietly surpassed human traffic on the web, yet most infrastructure — rate limiting heuristics, analytics pipelines, CDN cache-fill assumptions
