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Yes my example was smallish. Laptop itself doesn't matter as much as the general cost of doing anything in America due to tariffs. And yes, that includes higher health insurance costs, higher server costs due to cloud providers raising prices, and higher cost of literally holding office space.

All of these would be cheaper in any other country. The choices are endless.

However compute power will get significantly more expensive due to tariffs on components. So your argument is somewhat contradictory.

True. I'm not so sure about this. But the pure imported hardware cost is probably just a few 10s of millions, maybe 100 million or so. For office alone.

It's the cost of setting up and running the data centre that costs money. This is once again has a significant labor component.

> The cost of laptops etc. is not even a rounding error

In general it's not treated that way. Getting a $10 cable at work even though your salary is $80,000 can be hard

One of the biggest costs is bureaucracy.

Given other countries will have reciprocal tariffs and/or higher taxes I'm not sure why they will be cheaper it's a complex change going on.