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Re:Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 in Two Locations: NY and VA by _grep_ on Monday November 05, 2018 @11:58PM (#18388494)
That's right. Tons of contractors want to build into GovCloud as well, which will be exploding in the near future. They already have tons of data centers in Northern Virginia due to its proximity to ISPs and the federal government.
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Re:Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 in Two Locations: NY and VA by Godel_unicode on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @02:30AM (#18389076)
They (data centers) are not in Nova because the government is there, but rather because it has the lowest insurance costs in the Continental US.
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Re:Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 in Two Locations: NY and VA by flavor8 on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @05:17AM (#18389740)
Is that the major factor? I'd thought it was more:

* Proximity to low latency backbone connections (originally located there due to government agencies)

* Tax incentives by VA

* Low risk area for disasters

* Cheap power

* Available land

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