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Old 03-30-2011, 11:36 AM
 
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Looks like Kansas City won it.

It's a bummer, I really think Pittsburgh would have been almost a slam-dunk for them. Carnegie-Mellon is arguably the best computer science school in the world and Google has a campus in Pittsburgh that focuses on network applications. I wonder if the topography made it too expensive to roll out such an extensive network.

Google chooses Kansas City for ultra-fast Internet service - Mar. 30, 2011
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Old 03-30-2011, 12:49 PM
 
Location: Hillsboro, OR
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Keep in mind they chose Kansas City, KS NOT MO.

The overarching reasons seem to be that they wanted a smaller, more suburbanish city versus a place with a large urban core. Also, KCK is struggling economically compared to other cities in its metro area, whereas Pittsburgh has been on and continues to rise.
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