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Northern Virginia was chosen for it's proximity to existing data centers (us-east), proximity to a growing AWS government client base, the size of the workforce
by jeletonskelly 8y ago
Northern Virginia was chosen for it's proximity to existing data centers (us-east), proximity to a growing AWS government client base, the size of the workforce, and possibly the consideration that they will win and service the DoD JEDI contract. Companies like Amazon rarely lobby directly. They typically use industry groups.
- timfrietas 8y agoAmazon had a chief lobbyist even when I worked there years ago and they now have the largest in-house lobbyist team in tech: https://www.ft.com/content/56ddca24-3752-11e8-8eee-e06bde01c544 https://www.ft.com/content/56ddca24-3752-11e8-8eee-e06bde01c...
- BurningFrog 8y agoData centers can be anywhere. They just need cheap energy and high speed data connections. They certainly don't need to be near the upper management or big engineering teams of HQ2.