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Because their algorithms have a clear negative impact on Europeans mental health and are contributing to the deterioration of democracy? Or because they are thinly veiled front for Chinese intelligence services?
Yes, those could be harmful. How does location of the data center change that? If anything, it's better to have it in EEA for better oversight, no?
The data is already processed in Europe, that doesn't change. The fact that they are getting marching orders from the CCP also doesn't. And even if they were Europeans what they are doing should be a crime.
Okay, so no change in terms of legality of the enterprise. Personally I'm in favor of regulating Youtube and Tiktok to the point that they're truly socially responsible and only slightly profitable but that's mostly irrelevant to data center location discussion.
In terms of benefits of investing in data center in Norway I could list:
So I think this is good news.
Letting people build a Heroin-Cyanide candy factory would also bring jobs, I still think it should be illegal.
That's a fair point but it would require outlawing YouTube too.