alt Hacker News> I am a CS researcher at UC Berkeley. This has seriously impacted my work.
Can I suggest a topic for your next research? "Cloud exascalers and their negative impact on the society"
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Not sure why this is getting downvoted. This may be snark, but this is 100% needed in the world we live in today. It is a fact of today's world that individuals have no leverage over these companies. I can understand why big companies, who have leverage, buy their services. But I don't understand why individuals, who have no leverage, buy their services and build their profession and livelihood around them. Any day, they can cut you off from their services. You are being irresponsible to yourself if you put all your eggs in these big tech baskets.
We seriously do need this kind of research and compelling articles that argue why relying on these big tech cloud services is harmful for individuals.
Or “Why I should have been paying for support if my entire career depended on it.”