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I only have partial information here - and that is that I’ve heard connectivity is generally much cheaper in the EU. And I can see why too: denser population, s
by adamcharnock 2y ago
I only have partial information here - and that is that I’ve heard connectivity is generally much cheaper in the EU. And I can see why too: denser population, smaller distances between population centres, close to other continents.
But I’d be interested in any other reasons people can give.
- maicro 2y agoI was going to add on here that I thought electricity prices might be cheaper as well - I swear I saw recently some EU country was basically fully powered by renewable energy for some period of time, so electricity costs basically went negative - but a quick search shows I'm completely wrong[0]... [0] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=18851 https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=18851 - first .gov resource with relevant data directly on the page, that I found in ~30 seconds of searching. It is from 2014 though, so no guarantee how valid it still is...
- sshine 2y agoEurope has by far the highest cost of electricity worldwide: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/cost-of-electricity-by-country https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/cost-of-e...
- adamcharnock 2y agoAdditional thought: How competitive are the two markets? Does the USA have fewer second-tier cloud providers, and the market is just dominated by AWS/Google/Microsoft? EU customers can naturally use those services, but there is a demand for local/EU-sovereign providers. Perhaps this demand provides enough fuel to maintain a robust & competitive ecosystem of smaller cloud providers?