Very, very sure. I can pay far, far less than AWS and Microsoft charge for bandwidth in any US datacenter managing my own equipment. Meanwhile, HN-darling Digi

Very, very sure. I can pay far, far less than AWS and Microsoft charge for bandwidth in any US datacenter managing my own equipment. Meanwhile, HN-darling Digital Ocean charges their VPS customers just $0.02/GB on overage. That's right, for overage above the 1-9TB they include with their plans, DO charges less than I'm estimating the cost to be for massive providers to exchange traffic at far larger and more cost-effective scales. Linode charges $0.10/GB, and that's still less than AWS charges for the first 10TB. And again, that's after the 3-20(!)TB Linode's plans include in the base cost. Bandwidth is cheap. The US has all the fiber capacity between POPs that it needs. Adding or upgrading interconnects between Comcast and Cogent/Level3/whoever is not laying fiber across the countryside, it's buying switches or turning on ports and running cables from one cage in a datacenter to another cage in the same friggin' datacenter.