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The Cloud is Not a Railroad - An Argument Against the Vertical Separation of Cloud Providers

High Scalability

The global cloud computing industry was valued at $371 billion in 2020. A Cloud Provider Absorbs Huge Fixed and Sunk Costs. Cloud providers incur huge fixed costs for creating and maintaining a network of datacenters spread throughout the word. The market value of the worldwide IT industry is $5 trillion.

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The Crisis in Child Care: A Tri-Sector Solution?

UVA Darden

This matter — which particularly affects women and girls — touches issues of health, income, crime, IQ, costs to families and the public, and an individual’s ability to maintain steady employment. Once you add fixed costs to those wages, it gets very expensive to run a quality program with skilled providers. Economist James J.