Amazon picks New Taipei City for new innovation center

He either rounds up much more than that annually or he’s an outlier. Anyone who knows ppl in IT knows they get several times more than that. IT money is often better in Taiwan than in Europe after tax. Many still get something like €3300 after tax in Germany or France after many years because tax rate is that high (which of course you would dismiss because you know someone earning big bucks in Ireland).

Or maybe he just sucks and doesn’t really deserve better.

Ireland is a small country with Microsoft pouring in a disproportionate amount of capital. It’d be interesting to hear its tech story, but it’s not representative of the rest of Europe.

$10 million investment

Good, but does fourmosa run on AWS?
It would definitely cut costs to run this site.

They recently started self-hosting Discourse.
The current server is from DigitalOcean.

NDC hints at more investment from Google, MS.

Google strikes again.

Did the Amazon Innovation Center which was supposed to be starting up in Banqiao in 2018 actually ever happen? I can’t find any info on it now.

As of 2020 it was still operating.

https://meet-global.bnext.com.tw/articles/view/46685?

Meta shut down their R&D center after a year.

Since you read the web site fro meet-global, you can join the events they have