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Why Export Bans Cannot Stop Remote Compute

· 23 min · Episode 6518

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United States export regulations govern the physical shipment of AI chips across borders, but they leave remote server rentals almost entirely unrestricted. In regions like Johor, Malaysia, massive data centre campuses are operating at near-capacity to host hardware rented through offshore intermediaries. The financial driver of this trend is not cheap local electricity, which actually costs more than American industrial power, but the legal permission to rent advanced compute that cannot be bought directly at home.

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