Re:Google Cloud Platform Launches Northern Virginia Region
by empath75 on Thursday May 11, 2017 @05:09AM
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I live in ashburn. The rate at which they are building datacenter here is unreal. I have a 5 minute commute to the office and I drive past two new data centers and 4 more under construction. Pretty much anywhere that there is open space, they're building another one, or planning to.
According to [1]:
"Ashburn is the Internet’s boom town. It sits atop the world’s densest intersection of fiber networks, making it an ideal location to store and distribute data. .... It was home to MAE-East, the Internet’s first major interconnection point. A startup called Equinix built its first data center in Ashburn in 1998, providing a “carrier-neutral” facility where companies’ networks could tap into Internet backbones."
[2] describes trend for Y16, Y17. Worth a read. I was told by my SVP about his visit of Boston and he said Boston also hosts some of the major financial and entertainment businesses (e.g Netflix? I thought they shut down their own DC already) for Boston is also atop of major Internet backbone. I didn't verify this claim yet.
[1]: http://datacenterfrontier.com/the-ashburn-data-center-buildi...
[2]: http://www.us.jll.com/united-states/en-us/Research/US-North-...