a pergunta do dia

via e-mail:

'What's up with both Google and Apple locating 2 of the world's most massive new data centers within 30 miles of one another in a backwoods region of North Carolina? There were/are, indeed, low cost electrical power, tax and land incentives to attract both of these fierce Internet & IT technology industry competitors. However, it seems more than coincidental that both of these massive data centers - which, in effect, constitute the construction of the largest new Internet backbone node in the entire United States - were purpose built in a distinctly non-techie, rural and relatively unknown and sparsely populated area of North Carolina. […] These two companies are quite obviously aggressive competitors who need to differentiate their strategies, it seems quite coincidental and statistically implausible that these competitors would choose to almost co-locate within 30 miles of one another in a backwoods, non-techie, sparsely populated and relative unknown region of North Carolina near the base of the Appalachian mountains.'