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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone who is in IT, I totally agree.

Look at Ashburn's datacenter infrastructure.  The statistics are flooring. 70% of ALL internet traffic flows through Loudoun County.

I'm not sure if it is taxes that are the draw, but more like a highly qualified workforce, plus a state that works hard to draw the companies in.[/quote]

It's always been the center for Internet Communications, due to the history of the Internet.[/quote]

This is simply one example. As someone in IT, I can promise you that the IT footprint is not a monolith. Far from it. Most jobs are not even datacenter jobs. Datacenters do not create jobs. The amount of software engineers, developers, and cyber security experts in the area is astounding.

If you are not in it, you don't see it. This is exactly why Loudoun County has such wealth. So many people have struck gold with these small IT start up companies and they are not internet or telecommunication companies, that ship has sailed.  Big bucks right now in Big Data Analytics and cyber security/cyber forensics. That is fueling the growth right now.[/quote]

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