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Why is Ashburn the data center capital of the world?
Why is Ashburn, a city in Virginia’s Loudoun County about 34 miles from Washington D.C., widely known as the Data Center Capital of the World.
Large sources of cheap power are available, and local construction companies have been tackling data center projects for nearly thirty years, making them as close to experts in the field as you’re going to find. Today, technology powerhouses like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Oracle and Amazon all have stakes in the Data Center Alley to support their rapidly growing cloud computing needs. Subsea fiber cables from Europe and South America land in Virginia Beach and much of the internet traffic is then routed through Loudoun County's "Data Center Alley."
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