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I'm actually disappointed they went with Stockholm. Though I can understand why (proximity to a large pool of talent among other things).

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Why would they need to be close to 'a large pool of talent' in order to run a bunch of hosting? It doesn't take that many people to run a hosting facility, the ones I'm familiar with are mostly deserted. They take people to set up and a large amount of capital but once that's done it takes very few people to run.

Even the (very large) Google data centers typically do not employ more than 100 people, that's 30 people over 3 shifts and some overhead.

>Why would they need to be close to 'a large pool of talent' in order to run a bunch of hosting?

They don't. There will be a handful of English speaking data center operators, but that's it.

Most Swedes are actually English speaking, they won't have to get people from other countries for the language.

You're probably right. I'm not really familiar with what it takes to operate a data center.

They aren't actually located in Stockholm, but close enough to use resources from the Stockholm Area. Supposedly the DCs will be located in Västerås, Eskilstuna and Katrineholm[0].

[0] http://digital.di.se/artikel/amazon-oppnar-tre-datacenter-i-...

I see, that makes more sense I guess. Still, I would've liked it if they put the DCs in Norr- or Västerbotten. I'm very partial though ;P

You're biased, you mean?

Same thing: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/partial

Didn't now that, thx :)

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