The High Costs of the Cloud
Data centers make “the cloud” tangible. The supposed benefits—such as jobs—might not be.
We have just posted the next installment of Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan's "Contours of Crisis" article series: Systemic Fear and Forward-Looking Finance. The article puts forward an original thesis about the class underpinnings—and indeed class limits—of modern finance theory.
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