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It's the best way to get close to China without actually having to put infrastructure in China. There's a _lot_ of demand for access to China, and many companie
by mrkurt 8y ago
It's the best way to get close to China without actually having to put infrastructure in China. There's a _lot_ of demand for access to China, and many companies who want it are fine with Hong Kong.
- ksec 8y agoBut these are exactly the reason why it should have been done earlier, And these reason would have been the same in 2010 - 2016. When Google started negotiation in 2010 and announced their HK Datacenter project in 2011, every one thought this should finally kickstart what was then even consider as being late to the DC and Connectivity race in the region. And all of a sudden 2012 Google decided to pull out. Cloudflare could have opened an Office in HK but decided Singapore instead. Lots and Lots of Datacenter / Hosting companies came and looked and decided to give it a pass. Something changed in 2016 and there has since been lots of investment in Data Center and Connectivity.