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Re:Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest l... by jdavis703 on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @06:11PM (#15453972)
Bloomberg used to have (maybe they still have it) a data center at 525 Market Street, a skyscraper in the heart of the Financial District. Sometimes cost effectiveness isn't the sole option companies use, maybe it made sense for Bloomberg to have servers close to their customers.
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Re:Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest l... by solatic on Thursday October 12, 2017 @06:48AM (#15457019)
The financial sector isn't the best counter-example. Every little bit of latency matters in HFT, so there's probably a competitive advantage to running servers there compared with the countryside.
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