• Yggstyle@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Would probably end the Internet faster than China can cut intercontinental cables. I’m here for it but the fallout would be positively insane.

    • Lightor@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      There are plenty of providers, this is a little reactionary. I’ve worked with a local data center for hosting in every state I’ve lived in.

      • Yggstyle@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        It’s not about the providers, it’s about the move. Companies will need to migrate their infrastructure to another platform which (let’s be honest) likely will not have the bandwidth / rack space / hardware to support the influx of users. Companies will self host? Okay sure: time to spin up internal clusters, train employees, provision additional bandwidth / connections. And naturally - this will all go off without a hitch. Like flipping a switch.

        And we need to remember that many of these services rely on each other so one goes down: they take each other out.

        • person1@lemm.ee
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          2 months ago

          inertia is a thing, but just by having new EU projects avoid the big three you’d already have done a world of good to the IT ecosystem.