Jeff Bezos Volition In All Likelihood Consolidate His Ability Bases Inwards The Washington D.C. Surface Area (Amzn)

First up, Business Insider, March 31:

Evidence is mounting that Amazon's HQ2 volition nation inwards 'the bull's-eye of America's internet'

 
Amazon’s 2nd headquarters, HQ2, could nation inwards this surface area of Northern Virginia, following to Dulles Airport.-Google Earth

• Evidence is mounting that Amazon‘s 2nd headquarters could terminate upwardly inwards an surface area of Northern Virginia known every bit Data Center Alley, or, every bit i writer described it, the “bull’s-eye of America’s internet.”
• It’s estimated to a greater extent than than 70% of the world’s cyberspace traffic flows through Data Center Alley.
• Amazon late position the headquarters of its cloud employment concern simply three miles from the proposed HQ2 site.
• Amazon is too planning to build a 44-acre data-center campus nearby.

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Evidence is mounting that Amazon could conduct Northern Virginia – too specifically a site close Dulles International Airport – every bit the place of its following headquarters, dubbed “HQ2.”

Amazon has quietly been expanding its presence close the proposed site, which spans 26 acres of largely undeveloped nation on the edge of Loudoun too Fairfax counties. The fellowship simply position a novel headquarters for its chop-chop growing cloud service, Amazon Web Services, less than three miles from the site.

And within a 10-minute movement is a sprawling 44-acre plot of nation where Amazon is planning to build a massive 600,000-square-foot data-center campus.

The site for sure makes logistical sense: It’s following to Dulles International Airport too steps from an under-construction Metro station that volition render a direct shot to Washington, DC, too nearby suburbs.

But nigh of import – too possibly non every bit good known – is that the site is at the oculus of what has been described every bit the “bull’s-eye of America’s internet,” too known every bit Data Center Alley, through which much of the world’s cyberspace traffic flows daily.

Amazon is quietly expanding inwards the ‘bull’s-eye’ of the internet

Amazon Web Services is powered past times a physical network of information centres, or buildings that menage servers too other information technology equipment, around the world. The pump of that network lies inwards an surface area of Northern Virginia that has cash inwards one's chips known every bit Data Center Alley for its high concentration of information centres belonging to Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, too others.

It’s estimated that to a greater extent than than 70% of the world’s cyberspace traffic flows through Data Center Alley, too a huge part of that goes 400,000 acres inwards Texas. 
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