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In part one, we learned all about Amazon's cloud and how it works. But when I tried to get a tour of the cloud itself, I was turned away. The immateriality of the cloud is a trade secret for companies like Amazon, Google, and HP. In this story, the cloud even changes what we are capable of doing with our computers.

We continue our journey to the center of the cloud, by way of the earth: Rare Earth. China controls 95% of the market for the 17 Rare Earth elements that power our invisible technologies so your host decides to pay a visit to the Ganzhou region, to see the illegal mines in the with his own eyes.

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