"Ashburn was the closest place to those early interchanges that in the early aughts fit enough land to build modern data centers, and that is where AWS is based... Land is up to $6 million an acre if it's buildable for a data center because Ashburn has the Equinix facility that is the physical center"
"The new web is characterized by a client-server model backed by infrastructure giants like AWS and Google Cloud. For the vast majority of internet users, all economic and social activity passes through one of a few platforms, a sort of digital kindergarten where your life is totally owned by whoever"