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McDonald's owns their own farms. They are big enough that controlling their supply chain is very important.

Facebook does not use cloud providers and designs their own servers.

The very large compute uses and cloud providers have incentives to grow their own food. Doing so can save them a few percent at scale. That savings is both not passed on to you and even if it was is not significant at small to medium scales.



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