If you are at all into this sort of thing( data centers) and you ever get a chance to go, I strongly recommend it. The amount of tech in this building is just

If you are at all into this sort of thing( data centers) and you ever get a chance to go, I strongly recommend it. The amount of tech in this building is just staggering. As the article hints at, everyone who is everyone in finance has a spot there. This has an effect of the more people who are colocated there, the bigger the draw it becomes for the remaining few who aren't currently colocated there. In the interconnected world of finance, data center cross connects become very important. Its not unusual for a prop trading firm to have 30 different cross connects to vendors, exchanges and sell side firms. So I guess its not surprising that there have been companies formed with the sole intention of connecting companies that already exist in teh data center. Radianz and Lucera are mentioned in the article but there are usually a half a dozen in each of the main data centers in the new york and chicago surrounding area. as usual Nanex does a decent job of describing the reason why there are so many data centers and they all are atleast 10 miles apart. http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/3532.html http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/3532.html Another article from today that talks about the new data center. https://medium.com/@RobinWigg/wave-a-final-goodbye-to-this-5e8a03d2d653#.ou51wdi0m https://medium.com/@RobinWigg/wave-a-final-goodbye-to-this-5...