That's a fair point, but the other datacentre attracting factor I should have mentioned is the presence of surplus optical fibre bandwidth on the Oregon/Washing

That's a fair point, but the other datacentre attracting factor I should have mentioned is the presence of surplus optical fibre bandwidth on the Oregon/Washington border: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/14/technology/14search.html http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/14/technology/14search.html