Rare Earth Elements - Neodymium

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Neodymium is one of 17 magic rare earth elements. It's used in the data farms that operate in the background, invisibly somewhere in the country. A wind turbine can have up to 700 pounds of neodymium in it. This is why all of the gadgets we use to access the cloud have neodyMium inside them as well.

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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