About this episode

The episode discusses the reasons behind building data centers and the implications of the FCC's ban on non-US made home routers.

  In this roundtable episode of the Hedge, Eyvonne, Tom, and Russ hang out and talk about data centers--why are we building all these things again? Our second topic is the FCC's ban on non-US made home routers. Was this the right thing to do? Was it the wrong thing to do? Were there any other policy options?

People in this episode

Host: Russ

Guests: Eyvonne, Tom

Topics covered

• data centers
• FCC ban
• home routers
• policy options
• technology

Keywords

• data centers
• FCC
• home routers
• policy
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FCC

Products: home routers

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