Executive Summary
The week of January 19 through January 26, 2026, will be remembered as the moment the artificial intelligence (AI) narrative decoupled from software capabilities and anchored itself in industrial reality. For the last three years, the conversation was dominated by scaling laws and emergent properties. This week, the vocabulary shifted to silicon sovereignty, grid defection, and the Industrial Siege. System Integrators (SIs) and Service Providers (SPs) are no longer just software implementers. They are now navigating the most significant capital supercycle in modern history, characterized by a $600 billion front-loading of physical infrastructure.
The primary focus of this week’s analysis is the transition of AI labs into civil engineering firms. The Big Four—OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI—are no longer just competing for researchers. They are competing for gigawatts of power and carbon-free nuclear baseloads to bypass a fragile public grid. This “Grid Defection” is reshaping the strategic landscape for federal IT modernization, as agencies must now consider the physical limits of the planet when planning their digital futures.
Secondary themes this week include the release of six new Request for Comments (RFCs) from FedRAMP, which signal a final set of modernization updates under the FedRAMP Authorization Act. We also examine the outcomes of the NIST Cyber AI Workshop #2 and the GSA’s new Request for Information (RFI) targeting value-added resellers (VARs) to tighten markups on OEM pricing. Additionally, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) push for automated mobile field operations via its “Stella” AI provides a practical look at agentic AI in mission-critical environments.
As we move into the end of January, the strategic risk for 2026 is the “Margin Pivot.” Investors and appropriators are transitioning from patience to performance. If the current generation of autonomous agents does not begin delivering measurable reductions in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by the final quarter of the year, the market may face a temporary “Valley of Despair.”
Primary Topic: The Industrial Siege and the $600B Capital Supercycle
What Happened This Week. The Shift to Industrial AI
This week, market data and industrial reports confirmed that the era of AI research has been superseded by the era of the Industrial Siege. The term refers to the massive capital moats being constructed by the world’s leading AI labs. These firms are no longer just optimizing weights in a model. They are acting as industrial conglomerates. This shift is evidenced by the $602 billion being poured into infrastructure, land acquisition, and energy production by the Big Five hyperscalers (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Oracle) (MUFG Americas, December 19, 2025; Introl, January 7, 2026).
One of the most significant indicators of this shift was the emergence of “Grid Defection.” Hyperscalers are increasingly disconnecting from public electrical infrastructure to run on dedicated, private energy sources. This trend was underscored by the move toward Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) and the resurrection of decommissioned nuclear sites, such as the Crane Clean Energy Center at Three Mile Island, which is now under a 20-year contract to provide the 835-megawatt baseload required for Microsoft’s expanding data center footprint (CBS News, November 19, 2025).
Furthermore, the concept of “Silicon Sovereignty” has moved from a theoretical advantage to a procurement requirement. Firms like Microsoft and AWS are increasingly bypassing the “NVIDIA tax” by designing their own custom Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), such as the Maia, Trainium, and TPU series. This allows them to control the full stack from the atomic level of the chip to the agentic layer of the software (The Next Platform, October 31, 2025; Xpert Digital, October 7, 2025).
Detailed Breakdown of the $600B Capital Allocation
The $602 billion projected for 2026 represents a 36 percent year-over-year increase from 2025, itself a record year. To put this in perspective, this investment level matches approximately 1.9 percent of global GDP, a capital intensity ratio previously seen only during massive 20th-century projects like the interstate highway system or the early telecom buildout (IEEE ComSoc, December 22, 2025).
The allocation of this capital is highly concentrated.
AI Infrastructure (GPUs/Accelerators). Approximately $180 billion (30 percent). While NVIDIA continues to capture 90 percent of this spend, the shift toward custom silicon is accelerating (Introl, January 7, 2026).
Data Center Construction. Approximately $120 billion. This includes the massive civil engineering costs of 15-20 GW of new capacity across 500+ facilities globally (Introl, January 7, 2026).
Energy Infrastructure and Networking. Approximately $70 billion. This covers the “last mile” of energy—substations, high-density thermal management, and private energy generation (Introl, January 7, 2026).
For SIs, this breakdown reveals where the money is flowing. The physical layer is now the primary driver of digital transformation.
Technical Deep Dive. The Silicon Sovereignty Race
The move toward custom ASICs (Application-Specific Integrated Circuits) is no longer a cost-saving measure. It is a performance necessity for the agentic era. SIs must understand the technical nuances of these chips to advise federal clients on long-term architecture.
1. Microsoft Azure Maia 100.
Designed specifically for large-scale AI workloads like Azure OpenAI Service. Maia is built on a 5nm process and features 105 billion transistors. Its primary advantage is “Full-Stack Integration”—Microsoft has co-designed the chip with the rack-level liquid cooling and the software compiler to maximize efficiency.
Implication for SIs. Focus on “Optimized Inference” contracts. Maia-based workloads can offer significantly lower TCO for agencies running high-volume GPT-4o deployments.
2. AWS Trainium3 and Inferentia2.
AWS claims Trainium2/3 offers 30-40 percent better “bang for the buck” than standard GPU options for training (The Next Platform, October 31, 2025). Unlike Microsoft, AWS has a four-generation head start in custom silicon (dating back to Graviton in 2018).
Implication for SIs. Focus on “Cloud Economics” and “Workload Portability.” AWS provides the most mature environment for running heterogeneous compute (GPU + ASIC), making it the ideal choice for agencies with diverse model requirements.
3. Google TPU v6 and Axion.
Google’s Tensor Processing Units are the “gold standard” for large-scale training efficiency, reportedly 4-10 times more cost-effective for specific LLM training than NVIDIA H100 clusters (Xpert Digital, October 7, 2025).
Implication for SIs. Focus on “Sovereign Intelligence.” Agencies building private, domain-specific models (e.g., in defense or health) will find the TPU architecture the most scalable for long-term training cycles.
The ASIC Lock-In Trap. Exit Strategy Requirements
The Silicon Sovereignty race creates a new form of vendor lock-in that operates at the atomic level. When an agency optimizes its AI workloads for AWS Trainium3, migrating to Microsoft Maia or Google TPU requires not just software re-compilation but fundamental model re-training. Contracting officers must include “ASIC Portability Clauses” that require SIs to maintain model architectures capable of cross-platform execution with no more than 20 percent performance degradation. This is analogous to the “data portability” requirements in cloud contracts but operates one layer deeper in the stack.
For the War Department and intelligence agencies, this risk is magnified. If a mission-critical agent is hard-coded for a specific proprietary chip, that agent becomes a single point of failure. SIs should propose “Cross-Silicon Virtualization” layers that abstract the hardware instructions, even if it incurs a 5-10 percent performance penalty. The cost of portability is far lower than the cost of a complete architectural rebuild in 2028.
Historical parallels with Oracle databases or SAP implementations show that lock-in is easy to enter but nearly impossible to exit. In the Industrial Siege, the lock-in is physical. If the data center power and chip architecture are proprietary, the customer has zero leverage during renewal negotiations. SIs must advise clients to maintain “Shadow Stacks”—smaller versions of the same agents running on commodity GPU clusters—to provide a credible exit path.
Energy Economics. The Shift to Grid Defection and SMRs
The “Great Filter” of AI adoption in 2026 is power. Data center demand is projected to reach 1,000 TWh by 2030 (IEA, 2024). In the U.S. alone, data centers consumed 183 TWh in 2024 (4 percent of total electricity) and are projected to grow 133 percent by 2030 (Pew Research, October 24, 2025).
The Economics of Nuclear Baseload.
Hyperscalers are defecting from the grid because renewable energy (wind/solar) cannot provide the 24/7/365 baseload required for Level 3/4 AI agents. The resurrection of Three Mile Island (Unit 1) is the first of many “nuclear pivots.” Microsoft’s 20-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Constellation Energy provides price stability and 835 MW of carbon-free power (CBS News, November 19, 2025).
Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) vs. Traditional Grid.
Regulatory Hurdles. SMRs face a 4-7 year licensing window from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). However, recent DOE loans (like the $1 billion for Three Mile Island) signal federal support for bypassing these delays (CBS News, November 19, 2025).
Cost Curves. Initial SMR deployments (Wave 1) are expected to be 2-3x more expensive than grid power. However, by Wave 3 (2030+), the “factory-built” nature of SMRs is expected to drive costs below traditional coal/gas when carbon taxes are factored in (IEA, 2024).
Which Agencies Can Defect from the Grid?
Not all agencies can pursue Grid Defection. A downtown GSA office building cannot install an SMR. However, agencies with large campuses—War Department installations, DOE national laboratories, NASA facilities—have the physical footprint required. The Savannah River Site, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Fort Bragg all have existing nuclear expertise, cooling water access, and sufficient land for SMR deployment.
Agencies without suitable facilities should explore “Regional Compute Hub” models where multiple agencies co-locate workloads at a shared, nuclear-powered data center operated by a prime contractor under a multi-agency IDIQ contract. SIs should target the War Department’s “Operational Energy” budget lines, which are increasingly merging with IT modernization budgets. If an SI can solve the power problem, they own the compute contract.
Physical requirements for Grid Defection are non-negotiable. You need land (100+ acres for an SMR cluster), cooling water access (millions of gallons per day), and existing high-voltage transmission lines. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Forest Service are sitting on the most valuable real estate for the 2027 buildout. SIs with expertise in environmental impact statements (NEPA) will find themselves in high demand as IT projects move from the “cloud” to the “campus.”
SI Contract Opportunity Deep Dive. Outcome-Based Models
Traditional Time and Materials (T&M) contracts are incompatible with the Industrial Siege model. When an SI proposes a custom ASIC-based solution, the client cares about cost-per-inference, not hours worked. This requires transitioning to Firm-Fixed-Price Outcome contracts where payment milestones are tied to verified TCO reduction.
For example, instead of “2,080 hours of AI implementation at $150/hour,” the proposal should read. “Reduction of administrative processing time from 45 minutes to 30 seconds per transaction, verified through independent audit, for $X per transaction processed.” This shifts risk to the SI but commands 30-50 percent higher margins when executed successfully.
Contract Vehicle Evolution. From Labor-Hour to Outcome-Based.
SIs should look to GSA OASIS+ and the next generation of GWACs for “Performance-Based” task orders. The transition requires a new form of “Past Performance” narrative. Instead of listing headcounts, SIs must list “Inference Efficiency” and “Energy Savings.” If your firm can prove it reduced an agency’s electrical bill by 15 percent through model quantization and ASIC optimization, you are no longer a staffing firm; you are a strategic partner.
RFP Response Example (Grid Defection Proposal).
Before. “The contractor will provide 10 Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs) to maintain the agency’s cloud infrastructure and monitor AI performance.”
After. “The contractor will deploy a sovereign compute cluster powered by dedicated carbon-free energy, guaranteeing an inference cost of $0.002 per 1,000 tokens with 99.99 percent uptime independent of the public electrical grid. Payment is contingent on a verified 40 percent reduction in administrative processing overhead.”
Geopolitical Implications. Silicon Sovereignty as Strategy
The race for Silicon Sovereignty is inseparable from the semiconductor competition with China. When Microsoft designs Maia or AWS develops Trainium, they are building strategic assets that cannot be easily replicated by adversaries. Unlike NVIDIA GPUs, which are subject to export controls and reverse engineering risks, custom ASICs embedded in hyperscaler data centers are physically and legally protected.
Federal contracting officers must verify that any custom ASIC offered in a proposal has a fully domestic supply chain—fabrication, packaging, and testing—to comply with CHIPS Act requirements and avoid dependencies on TSMC facilities vulnerable to geopolitical disruption. Silicon Sovereignty is not just about efficiency. It is about “Strategic Autonomy.” If the United States controls the only chips capable of running Level 4 agents at scale, the global power balance shifts toward the “Industrial Siege” leaders.
The national security implications are clear. The private sector now controls the most efficient compute on the planet. The War Department must ensure that these private moats are accessible for mission-critical defense workloads without creating a “monopoly on intelligence.” SIs play the critical role of the “Secure Gateway,” ensuring that federal security requirements are baked into the hyperscaler’s custom silicon from the design phase.
Historical Context. Previous Infrastructure Supercycles
To understand the $600 billion leap of faith, we must compare it to previous cycles.
The Dotcom Fiber Buildout (1990s). Telecom providers spent $100 billion laying fiber that went unused for a decade (”dark fiber”). The key difference today is that today’s hyperscalers (the Big Five) are highly profitable and are funding CapEx through internal cash flow and manageable debt, not through circular “vendor financing” (IEEE ComSoc, September 27, 2025).
The Cloud Buildout (2010-2020). This was a software-first cycle. The AI cycle is infrastructure-first. In 2025, tech CapEx as a percentage of GDP nearly matched the combined scale of the largest capital projects of the 20th century (IEEE ComSoc, December 22, 2025).
The lesson for SIs. Unlike the dotcom bubble, the physical assets being built today have immediate utility. The “Dark Fiber” of 2026 is “Dark Power”—permitted land and energy capacity that is more valuable than the code it runs.
Risk Scenarios. The Valley of Despair
The “Margin Pivot” is the moment when the market demands ROI on this $600 billion spend. AI-native revenue currently covers only 15 percent of annual CapEx (Introl, January 7, 2026).
Scenario A. The “Hard Landing” (Q4 2026)
Trigger. Agentic AI fails to automate significant portions of middle-management workflows in the federal enterprise.
Outcome. A 30 percent pullback in infrastructure spend. SIs with high CapEx-related headcounts (builders) face mass layoffs, while “Efficiency Consultants” thrive.
Scenario B. The “Productivity Bloom” (Late 2026)
Trigger. The “10,000 AIdeas” and similar competitions result in a surge of low-code, high-impact agents that reduce federal administrative TCO by 20 percent.
Outcome. The $600 billion spend is justified. SIs transition from “Implementation” to “Managed Agency”—running the agents they built.
The Path to Level 5 Organizational Intelligence (2027-2028)
The transition from Level 3 Agents to Level 5 Organizational Intelligence requires three breakthroughs. (1) persistent long-term memory architectures that allow agents to maintain context across weeks or months, (2) multi-agent coordination protocols that enable autonomous agent-to-agent collaboration without human orchestration, and (3) self-improving reward models that allow agents to optimize their own performance metrics.
Early signals of the “Hard Takeoff” scenario include. agent-driven code commits exceeding 50 percent of total production code in Fortune 500 companies, measurable GDP contribution from autonomous agent labor, and the first autonomous agent earning professional certification (CPA, PE, etc.). SIs must position for this by building “Agent Orchestration” platforms today. If you are still selling “Chatbots” in 2026, you will be irrelevant by 2028.
Technological breakthroughs like 1-bit quantization and Small Language Model (SLM) efficiency will determine the timeline. If we can run a 70B parameter model on a single mobile device, the need for the Industrial Siege might soften. However, the current evidence suggests that “Bigger is Better” remains the dominant law of scaling. SIs should hedge their bets by investing in both “Mega-Compute” and “Edge-Inference” practices.
Why It Matters
1. System Integrators and Service Providers
For SIs and service providers, the Industrial Siege represents both a massive opportunity and a significant risk. The opportunity lies in the $600 billion leap of faith. SIs that can position themselves as the “civil engineering” partners of the digital world—helping agencies manage the physical requirements of AI—will capture the largest portion of this spend.
SIs should anticipate a shift in contract vehicles. We are moving away from traditional “Labor Hour” contracts and toward “Outcome-Based” agreements where the SI is rewarded for TCO reduction. If you are not building an agentic practice that can bridge the 85 percent revenue-to-CapEx gap, you are building on a foundation of sand.
2. Government IT Workers and Leaders
Federal and state CIOs are facing a new “Great Filter.” If an agency cannot secure its own independent energy baseload or compute priority, it will be throttled. Government IT leaders must move beyond software-only roadmaps and begin coordinating with facilities, energy providers, and physical security teams.
The “Industrial Siege” means that modernization is now a physical problem. Agencies should look at the ICE “Stella” model (FedScoop, January 22, 2026) as a blueprint for high-impact automation that targets specific administrative friction points rather than general “AI adoption.”
3. Government Contracting Officers
The shift toward Silicon Sovereignty will change how contracts are written. Acquisition professionals must prepare for a move toward vertically integrated offerings. Rather than buying hardware and software separately, agencies will increasingly buy “AI outcomes” powered by vendor-specific ASICs.
This will require new evaluation criteria.
Energy Efficiency Metrics. Ranking vendors based on Joules-per-Inference.
Vendor Sovereignty. Assessing the risk of proprietary hardware lock-in (e.g., being tied to AWS Trainium vs. NVIDIA).
Supply Chain Integrity. Verifying the atomic-level origin of the custom ASICs.
4. All Others
For policymakers and analysts, the decoupling of AI compute from public infrastructure raises questions about national security and equity. If the private sector controls the most efficient energy and compute resources, the “public” version of the AI revolution may be significantly slower and more expensive.
Recommendations
Phase 1. Inventory and Assessment (Immediate)
SIs should conduct a “Physical Audit” of their client roadmaps. Identify which AI projects are dependent on public grid capacity and which are candidates for “Grid Defection” strategies.
Action. Map every AI initiative to a clear TCO reduction target (Source. Introl, 2026).
Metric. Aim for a 3.1 ratio of “Revenue/Savings” to “Compute Cost” to survive the Margin Pivot.
Phase 2. Infrastructure Realignment (Next 6-12 Months)
Service providers should prioritize partnerships with companies in the physical layer of the stack, such as high-density thermal management and carbon-free nuclear providers.
Action. Develop a “Sovereign Compute” offering that utilizes custom ASICs (Maia, Trainium, TPU) to offer 30-50 percent lower cost-per-token for federal clients (Source. Xpert Digital, 2025).
Phase 3. Silicon Sovereignty Integration (Long-term)
Integrate custom ASIC support into federal reference architectures. Move away from universal hardware assumptions.
Action. Propose “Outcome-as-a-Service” contracts where the SI owns the hardware/energy stack and the government pays for the verified mission result.
Primary Topic Sources
Exchange Weekly, “The 2026 Singularity Horizon: The Era of the Industrial Siege,” January 19, 2026.
MUFG Americas, “Hyperscalers’ Capex Above $600 Bn in 2026: Financing the AI Supercycle,” December 19, 2025.
Introl Blog, “Hyperscaler CapEx Hits $600B in 2026: The AI Infrastructure Debt Wave,” January 7, 2026.
IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog, “Hyperscaler capex > $600 bn in 2026 a 36% increase over 2025,” December 22, 2025.
The Next Platform, “AWS Bullish On Homegrown Trainium AI Accelerators,” October 31, 2025.
Xpert Digital, “AI chip hype meets reality: In-house development versus market saturation,” October 7, 2025.
CBS News Pittsburgh, “Department of Energy loaning $1 billion to help restart Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear reactor,” November 19, 2025.
IEA, “Energy supply for AI - Global electricity supply to meet data centre demand,” 2024.
Pew Research, “What we know about energy use at U.S. data centers amid the AI boom,” October 24, 2025.
Secondary Themes
Theme 2 - FedRAMP Modernization and the Final RFCs
On January 13, 2026, FedRAMP announced the release of six new Request for Comments (RFCs) designed to complete the program’s modernization under the FedRAMP Authorization Act. These updates include RFC 0022, which proposes leveraging external security assessments (such as SOC 2 Type II or ISO 27001) to allow agencies to quickly pilot cloud services for low-risk applications (FedRAMP.gov, January 13, 2026).
The most critical development is RFC 0020, which proposes the new designations. “FedRAMP Validated” (for 20x automated processes) and “FedRAMP Certified” (for Rev5 processes) (FedRAMP.gov, January 13, 2026). These levels will replace the historical Low/Moderate/High labels with a 1-6 level system.
Actionable Insight. SIs should prepare to migrate clients toward “FedRAMP Validated” services to take advantage of automated validation and faster time-to-adoption.
Theme 3 - NIST Cyber AI Workshop and Agent Identity
The NIST Cyber AI Workshop #2 held on January 14, 2026, focused on the preliminary draft of the Cyber AI Profile (NIST IR 8596). A key takeaway is that AI agents are now treated as “actors” within the environment rather than just applications. They require unique, traceable identities, credentials, and defined permissions (Wilson Elser, January 2026; Dice, January 14, 2026).
NIST urges organizations to maintain inventories covering models, agents, API keys, and datasets to support boundary enforcement. This aligns AI security with zero-trust challenges and multiplies the complexity of identity and access management (IAM).
Actionable Insight. Incorporate “Agent Identity Management” as a core pillar of zero-trust architectures for federal clients.
Theme 4 - GSA Target on VAR Markups
The GSA issued an RFI this week seeking feedback on federal IT procurement through value-added resellers (VARs). The agency is investigating significant variances in value-added services and markup percentages applied to OEM pricing (IBM Center, January 23, 2026). This signals a move toward more transparent and potentially standardized markup structures in federal IT, as the administration focuses on efficiency and eliminating waste.
Actionable Insight. VARs should document and justify their value-added services to survive the upcoming scrutiny of markup percentages.
Theme 5 - ICE “Stella” AI and Mobile Enforcement
ICE has launched quarterly industry days to expand partnerships focused on “Stella,” an internal AI chatbot that automates lower-level business functions in cybersecurity and the service desk (FedScoop, January 22, 2026). The agency is also utilizing “Mobile Fortify,” an app that reduces data entry time from 45 minutes to 30 seconds per detainee through automated facial recognition and “Super Query” data integration (EPIC.org, November 26, 2025; FedScoop, January 22, 2026).
Actionable Insight. Use the ICE model as a case study for “High-Agency” field operations where AI handles administrative friction, allowing humans to focus on mission-critical decisions.
Secondary Theme Sources
FedRAMP.gov, “Changelog and RFC Announcements (RFC 0019-0024),” January 13, 2026.
Wilson Elser, “NIST Issues Preliminary Draft of Cyber AI Profile (IR 8596),” January 2026.
Dice, “NIST AI Cyber Profile Draft: What Cybersecurity Pros Need to Know,” January 14, 2026.
IBM Center for The Business of Government, “Weekly Roundup: January 19-23, 2026.
FedScoop, “ICE’s IT shop eyes more automation, embraces AI chatbot,” January 22, 2026.
EPIC.org, “Coalition Call on ICE To End Its Use of Facial Recognition in the Field,” November 26, 2025.
The Week Ahead
As we close out January 2026, several critical deadlines and trends will converge.
NIST Comment Deadline (January 30). The public comment window for the Cyber AI Profile (IR 8596) closes. SIs should ensure their feedback is submitted to shape the final version of the document that will dictate AI security standards for the next three years (Wilson Elser, January 2026).
FedRAMP RFC Windows (February). The recently released FedRAMP RFCs have closing dates throughout February (e.g., RFC 0020 closes February 19). SIs must review RFC 0024 on “Rev5 Machine-Readable Packages,” as this will be the last major update for the foreseeable future (FedRAMP.gov, January 13, 2026).
Congressional Hearing on AI Infrastructure (February 4). The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has scheduled a hearing on “Powering the AI Revolution,” specifically focusing on the regulatory hurdles for SMR deployment at federal facilities. SIs should monitor this for signals regarding expedited permitting for War Department grid defection.
The “Margin Pivot” Risk. We are monitoring signals that investors are beginning to demand clearer revenue paths for AI-native infrastructure. The “Industrial Siege” requires $602 billion in CapEx, but the current 15 percent revenue coverage is unsustainable. SIs should spend the next week reviewing their AI portfolios for “Revenue-First” use cases.
Workplace Efficiency Deadline. Following the AWS 10,000 AIdeas competition deadline on January 21, expect a surge in “shadow AI” ideas within agencies (AWS Builder Center, January 18, 2026). SIs should proactively offer “Managed Innovation” services to help agencies govern these ideas before they become compliance liabilities.
GSA OASIS+ Phase II RFI Expected. Industry rumors suggest GSA will issue a follow-up RFI regarding the incorporation of “Industrial Siege” labor categories (e.g., SMR Engineers, ASIC Architects) into the OASIS+ vehicle.
Closing Perspective
The Industrial Siege is the strategic pivot where AI competition moves from algorithmic breakthroughs to the control of physical assets. In 2026, the path to the Singularity is purely physical. It is built on land, energy, and silicon. The labs and SIs that own their energy supply chain and those building the “Agentic Workflows” to bridge the revenue gap will survive the “Valley of Despair.” The horizon of 2028 AGI is visible, but the path requires an uncompromising focus on the physical limits of the digital world.
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