When CA shut down their last nuke
plant, it almost universally stunted data center growth in that
state for data centers and more. Both norcal and socal have
massive power issues, or rather a deficiency thereof leading to
them that cannot be overcome, driving lots of shops to look "close
as possible" for power, namely AZ. I moved a few large companies
networks into az facilities just for that reason - power, and
we're ripe with data centers for that reason. CA isn't the only
place, either.
Another good reason, which I think people here take for granted,
is good internet (user access, nap peering) and data transport
access (read: municipal fiber). As much as folks complain in az,
internet is much worse elsewhere for the users or businesses with
only choices of dated technology, especially when they have crappy
isp's that don't invest in their core medium, ie. cable/coax or
2-wire dsl. Cox still has little pockets of old crap coax around
that people on it are plagued by, but dsl is far worse being
simply stunted by physical limitations, and generally you get
something of a choice with cox seemingly being more
prevalent/available. Sky is the limit for bandwidth with cable
docsis these days, as much as you'll see with async pon fiber to
the home services, so users win here for Internet usually always.
For businesses with big data needs, lots of fiber in the ground
from a number of providers, we're a well connected city doing
100mb connections to dark fiber doing dwdm with 80 wavelengths of
10gbe per strand on it most anywhere in town.
Wireless too - Cox is rolling out mostly global municipal wifi
soon too, but you also have an abundance of other choices for
802.11, top-end LTE cellular as well.
Living in the vaunted Silicon Valley tech mecca for a few years
end of the 90's, I can say the worst part was getting "good"
internet access sadly enough, and I've never had that issue in
Phoenix. Phones sucked there, data sucked (well, Ricochet was
brand new then with phat 9600baud wireless data connections!), for
being such an innovative place, the crappy carriers there totally
kept them held back (ahem, at&t at the time), as did
everything being old and too bureaucratic to repair (it *is*
Cali...).
As Stephen said, I also don't have to earthquake strap loose
devices in a data center here either.
-mb
On 02/13/2015 09:13 AM, Stephen Partington wrote:
We are awesome for this, next to no natural
disasters makes us incredibly stable. lots of call centers
give a general basis for tech career starts. in all it makes
sense.
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Keith
Smith <
techlists@phpcoderusa.com>
wrote:
http://www.geekwire.com/2015/silicon-desert-phoenix-quickly-quietly-becoming-hub-innovation/
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