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Dave Montgomery, Texas Lures Data Centers, Not for Jobs but for Revenue; Facilities as the bright spots in the real estate market. New York Times, Apr 27, 2016
www.nytimes.com/2016/04/27/reale ... ut-for-revenue.html
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"Texas has become one of the country’s leading destinations for data centers, propelled by robust economic growth in recent years, a business-friendly tax climate, abundant sources of water and dependable electricity.
"Dallas-Fort Worth * * * ranks among the nation's top five data center locations. * * * Suburban Northern Virginia, near Washington, is widely considered the nation’s top data center market, and others high on the list include the greater New York-New Jersey region and the Silicon Valley-San Francisco area.
"The boom seems to be playing out under the radar of the public, in part because data centers prefer to keep a low profile, largely for security reasons.
Note:
(a) There is no need to read the rest. I did not know data centers can be lucrative.
(b) "The billionaire developer Ross Perot Jr * * * Mr. Perot, the son of the computer magnate H. Ross Perot"
Ross Perot Jr (1958- ; is the elder son of billionaire American businessman and former United States presidential candidate, Ross Perot) en.wikipedia.org
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