It is crazy how you see so many datacenters getting built in places of high land value such as say northern virginia. Why not just build them in west virginia and build twice as many for the same spend? They'd probably even let you burn coal to power them.
I'm guessing it's to do with regulation. There's probably some policy document that says a certain org needs to be able to access the physical servers within a certain amount of time, and so they need to be nearby, even though nobody ever does the accessing.
DC would be the kind of place with a lot of government contractors that would have this kind of stipulation, is my guess.
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DC would be the kind of place with a lot of government contractors that would have this kind of stipulation, is my guess.