Huntsville, AL Is Serious About Google Fiber

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by razerbeans • 16 years ago

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chipsy• 16 years ago

Not a huge surprise. Huntsville is actually a fairly technically-minded city, with both NASA and DoD contractors.

mattezell• 16 years ago

Agreed. I live in Birmingham, AL and there are far more 'tech job' listings for Huntsville than is the case in Birmingham - despite Birmingham being exponentially larger than Huntsville.

waterlesscloud• 16 years ago

Yeah, Huntsville would make a lot of sense, actually. Very highly educated population with good income, but relatively remote from any major city.

Los Alamos would make a similar sort of sense.

tptacek• 16 years ago

This whole Google Fiber thing is looking more and more like absolutely genius marketing.

ramidarigaz• 16 years ago

Boulder, CO (my hometown) is apparently making a big push for it as well.

zacharypinter• 16 years ago

Ooh. I'd be tempted to move from Denver to Boulder for Fiber Internet.

harshpotatoes• 16 years ago

I dunno. I still think Google, Kansas is the ballsiest move yet.

I hope the city that does get Google fiber actually manages to make good use of it and develop some friggin brilliant ideas. All I can think of are gaming ideas...

npatrick04• 16 years ago

This would be awesome...although I wonder how far out the fiber would go since I actually live in Limestone County.

aditya• 16 years ago

So is Philly: http://gigabitphilly.com/

oomkiller• 16 years ago

AHH YES! Maybe they will bring it to Athens too!

detst• 16 years ago

Would be nice to see Ann Arbor get it. There is support from the city and the University of Michigan.

Maybe Larry Page could influence this decision and give back to the state and university where he started.

I think it would be good choice for Google and something positive for the area.

mattblalock• 16 years ago

Both Winston-Salem and Greensboro NC are going for it. Google already has a facility in the area (a major data center, I believe) and Apple is building a major data center near by.

Huntsville, AL Is Serious About Google Fiber

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