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Eighty thousand. That's roughly how many pages were in
the Federal Register, which contains the U.S. Code of Federal
Regulations, according to the Congressional Research Service.
And that doesn't even count all the laws that supposedly underlie
those regulations (the Washington Times says that the U.S.
Tax Code alone stands at 3,951,104 words—about seven
times the length of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace), to say
nothing of state and local laws and regulations. Of course, large
portions of that onerous burden don't apply to data centers, but
like anyone seeking to do business, data center operators must
face their piece of the regulatory pie.
