You’re right but Australian decisionmakers will never care, because IT infrasctucture is as now as political as what rifle is selected for the army. They’re fully plugged into Uncle Sam’s economic matrix, and that’s what will ultimately see Australia left behind on AI and a host of other technology self-sufficiencies, kept a minor second-hand innovator and permanent technology customer rather than exporter. Lobbying and the compliance industry aim to keep it like that.

In my years of earning a salary I have never once seen a department I worked in procure a product that wasn’t the biggest, safest American name. Ever. Oracle, Salesforce, MS, etc. every time.

The empire may change but Australian subservience remains conscious and deliberate (just like much of Europe tbh)