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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