Re:American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing
by znnajdla on Monday July 20, 2026 @04:15PM
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> given the enormous costs
The costs are enormous only in America. The actual cost is much lower. American technogy in general is ridiculously overpriced -- compare the cost for raw compute on AWS versus Hetzner for example.
Re:American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing
by procgen on Monday July 20, 2026 @06:05PM
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Apples to oranges. The AWS premium buys you a much broader platform with autoscaling, dozens of instance families, managed databases, serverless products, IAM, global regions, etc.
The costs are enormous only in America. The actual cost is much lower. American technogy in general is ridiculously overpriced -- compare the cost for raw compute on AWS versus Hetzner for example.