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Huntsville, AL Is Serious About Google Fiber
- chipsy 17y agoNot a huge surprise. Huntsville is actually a fairly technically-minded city, with both NASA and DoD contractors.
- mattezell 17y agoAgreed. I live in Birmingham, AL and there are far more 'tech job' listings for Huntsville than is the case in Birmingham - despite Birmingham being exponentially larger than Huntsville.
- waterlesscloud 17y agoYeah, Huntsville would make a lot of sense, actually. Very highly educated population with good income, but relatively remote from any major city. Los Alamos would make a similar sort of sense.
- tptacek 17y agoThis whole Google Fiber thing is looking more and more like absolutely genius marketing.
- ramidarigaz 17y agoBoulder, CO (my hometown) is apparently making a big push for it as well.
- zacharypinter 17y agoOoh. I'd be tempted to move from Denver to Boulder for Fiber Internet.
- harshpotatoes 17y agoI dunno. I still think Google, Kansas is the ballsiest move yet. I hope the city that does get Google fiber actually manages to make good use of it and develop some friggin brilliant ideas. All I can think of are gaming ideas...
- npatrick04 17y agoThis would be awesome...although I wonder how far out the fiber would go since I actually live in Limestone County.
- aditya 17y agoSo is Philly: http://gigabitphilly.com/ http://gigabitphilly.com/
- oomkiller 17y agoAHH YES! Maybe they will bring it to Athens too!
- detst 17y agoWould be nice to see Ann Arbor get it. There is support from the city and the University of Michigan. Maybe Larry Page could influence this decision and give back to the state and university where he started. I think it would be good choice for Google and something positive for the area.
- mattblalock 17y agoBoth Winston-Salem and Greensboro NC are going for it. Google already has a facility in the area (a major data center, I believe) and Apple is building a major data center near by.