Comments on: Small Markets Yearn for Big Data Centers http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/12/16/small-markets-yearn-for-big-data-centers/ News and analysis about data centers, cloud computing, managed hosting and disaster recovery Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:24:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Michael Keen http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/12/16/small-markets-yearn-for-big-data-centers/comment-page-1/#comment-2304 Michael Keen Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:36:02 +0000 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/?p=5635#comment-2304 As a resident of Des Moines, Iowa and a virtualization industry analyst I have seen a state where I joked, "technology goes to die" turn into a haven of large datacenters. The financial incentives that the states you mention, along with Iowa, will increasingly make the Midwest the place to build in the future. Besides the financial incentives for companies to build here, along with cheap power, there is the highly educated workforce. This datacenter building boom will hopefully stop the exodus of the younger people from the state. I'll be keeping a close eye on the state of datacenters in the Iowa. Cheers Michael Keen As a resident of Des Moines, Iowa and a virtualization industry analyst I have seen a state where I joked, “technology goes to die” turn into a haven of large datacenters. The financial incentives that the states you mention, along with Iowa, will increasingly make the Midwest the place to build in the future. Besides the financial incentives for companies to build here, along with cheap power, there is the highly educated workforce. This datacenter building boom will hopefully stop the exodus of the younger people from the state.

I’ll be keeping a close eye on the state of datacenters in the Iowa.

Cheers
Michael Keen

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