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I'm surprised they located their datacenter in NYC.

The NYSE, NASDAQ, and most other exchanges and brokerages run in datacenters in Cartaret, NJ and Mahwah, NJ. I can't think of a good reason why anyone would put a datacenter in Manhattan.

This is the actual NYSE datacenter https://maps.app.goo.gl/Da1E6Je9eJAGA1RK8

This is the actual NASDAQ datacenter https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZS9VJcZmf8VtvWEd6

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It was another time. Only big companies had dedicated data centers; the rest had an air-conditioned room in the office. That was before the "cattle, not pets" era, too: they would have a database server called "Debbie", a DNS server called "Denise", a file server called "Felix", etc.

100% this. It was almost weekly that we had to go to the DC to do something hands-on with the equipment, so having that be a 5 minute walk from our office was a huge benefit.

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