Evidence

Format Web Page

"Amazon’s expanding data-center infrastructure is supported by major outside infrastructure suppliers such as Corning."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Symbiotic, Rather than Adversarial

Source title Amazon announces agreement with Corning to boost US fiber optics manufacturing, creating 1,000 advanced manufacturing jobs in North Carolina

Source authors Amazon Staff

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"Amazon’s planned $10 billion North Carolina data-center expansion was expected to create at least 500 high-skilled jobs and support thousands more jobs in the AWS data-center supply chain."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Symbiotic, Rather than Adversarial

Source title Amazon plans to invest $10 billion in North Carolina to expand cloud computing infrastructure and advance AI innovation

Source authors Amazon Staff

Source year 2025

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"As of March 2019, Google had roughly 121,000 temps, vendors and contractors compared with 102,000 full-time employees."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Symbiotic, Rather than Adversarial

Source title Silicon Valley’s two-tiered system for white-collar workers is under pressure as coronavirus spreads

Source authors Nitasha Tiku; Elizabeth Dwoskin

Source year 2020

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"Microsoft reported a partner ecosystem of 500,000 and growing in 2025."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Symbiotic, Rather than Adversarial

Source title Microsoft at 50: The journey and future of the partner ecosystem

Source authors Nicole Dezen

Source year 2025

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"AWS operates a global partner ecosystem containing thousands of software and services partners."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Symbiotic, Rather than Adversarial

Source title AWS Partner Network

Source authors Amazon Web Services

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"Info-Tech’s 2025 benchmarking found routine IT operations and maintenance consuming 82.6% of average IT spending."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Symbiotic, Rather than Adversarial

Source title Harness AI to Reduce the Cost and Effort of KTLO in IT Operations

Source authors Fred Chagnon

Source year 2025

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"From 1988 to 2023, non-IT U.S. industries generated about 55% of private-business TFP growth while representing about 92% of private-business value added."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Symbiotic, Rather than Adversarial

Source title Concentrated Growth: The Role of the IT Sector

Source authors Joel M. David; Gustavo de Souza; Adalyn G. Schommer

Source year 2025

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"The U.S. IT sector’s contribution to TFP growth from 1988 to 2023 was more than five times its share of private-business value added."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Symbiotic, Rather than Adversarial

Source title Concentrated Growth: The Role of the IT Sector

Source authors Joel M. David; Gustavo de Souza; Adalyn G. Schommer

Source year 2025

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Between 1988 and 2023, the U.S. IT sector generated about 45% of private-business TFP growth while representing about 8% of private-business value added."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Symbiotic, Rather than Adversarial

Source title Concentrated Growth: The Role of the IT Sector

Source authors Joel M. David; Gustavo de Souza; Adalyn G. Schommer

Source year 2025

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Digital technology diffusion depends on complementary firm capabilities and incentives, including management quality and ICT skills."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Symbiotic, Rather than Adversarial

Source title Digital technology diffusion: A matter of capabilities, incentives or both?

Source authors Dan Andrews; Giuseppe Nicoletti; Christina Timiliotis

Source year 2018

Confidence high

Importance high