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4) Cloud computing will be outsourced to low energy cost countries.

I wonder if latency allows this

It depends on your requirements. Serving user-facing content is likely to be a task best suited to data centers geographically close to the user base. There are plenty of non-user-facing tasks that could be offloaded to another location.

As an example, the product I am developing spends most of its time calling third party APIs to do bulk data extraction and processing. That can happen anywhere. After data processing and some batch ETL work, we surface that to our end users. The output of that ETL needs to go somewhat close to our users, but everything else could easily happen network-seconds away.

With cloud egress cost though, moving the data to a low-cost region could be expensive itself. I wonder when it would pay off.

I am not shipping more than 20TB/host/month: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud

Also not shipping more than unlimited/host/month: https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/vps/

Start with a cloud provider that is better in terms of cost profile, and then move only the stuff that needs wider distribution to a higher cost geo-distributed provider.

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