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Oh, because we'd be at a great loss here if Amazon suddenly disappeared. What with their poverty wages the government has to top up, and the avoiding paying tax, and their exploitation of, well everything.
Look, I'm not against shifting Amazon. But what is the viable UK alternative? Any alternative needs to be at the same price and convenience otherwise it will simply fail in the market. Like it or not there's a reason why Amazon is Amazon.
I'm repeatedly told "The market abhors a vacuum", that is to say; I really don't care, that's not my problem.
To consumers, Amazon sells cheap shit people can live without, or stuff that can be had elsewhere already.
To business, Amazon rents server capacity and infrastructure, alternatives to which exist in droves.
Amazon is Amazon because they use every anticompetitive edge they can to squeeze out alternatives to themselves. Fuck 'em, they're a cancer.
Building datacenters is expensive but it is not like it is a misterious endeavour. Why governments are not putting projects out to build these, now critical, infrastuctures evades me.
I have a few datacenters in my country and supposedly more are on the way to being built. One of the first to be built is currently underway to be sold, as the telecom company that originally built and operated it appears to be going through rouh times.
I live in a 10000 people municipality. What would be the cost for the municipality to build a small datacenter and run it, perhaps even having a separare company run it and sell services from it?
The "too big to fail" argument sounds more and more indefensible and unsustainable.
Oh 100% agree with this. Short sighted spineless bureaucracy.