It has Ohio State University. One of the largest Universities in the world (50,000-ish students) and one that has been rising in the rankings steadily over the last couple of decades. It's quite a decent public school today. There are over a dozen colleges and universities right in and around the city.

It's Columbus, so yes. It's also one of the fastest growing cities in the upper midwest, afaik.

There are a ton of good big10 engineering schools, and columbus should be able to draw from the east coast as well, since it's a LOT less expensive (currently).

There are many smart people who grew up in the Midwest and want to stay there. A lot of Midwestern public schools have pretty good engineering programs, it's not just OSU, there's also Michigan, UIUC, Purdue. These cheap midwestern cities seem like a pretty good place to put high-tech manufacturing in the US.

One of the reasons Amazon didn't come to Michigan was because there wasn't enough programmers.

There was actually enough programmers, but they had to compete with automotive wages which are typically above 6 figures.

Ohio doesn't have that industry, so it might be a way to get cheap educated labor that would otherwise move out of state.