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TEC129: When Big Tech data centers come to small towns, what is the true cost to people and communities? Dom Bettinelli and Pat Scott discuss this and other topics, including China’s restrictions on kids’ gaming time, Tesla’s electric grid ambitions, and Amazon’s drone delivery woes.

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Links for this episode:

• Kids in China now restricted to just 3 hours of online gaming per week
• Tesla files to become an electricity provider in Texas
• Cars’ built-in WiFi connections are unreliable, study finds – Axios
• Microsoft Edge just got a ‘Super Duper Secure Mode’ upgrade
• The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream | WIRED UK
• Big Tech Is Coming to Small-Town America, but at What Cost? | Time

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