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Actually the cloud's not much in SV. Rackspace is in Texas and Amazon's AWS leaders are in Seattle and their biggest datacenter is in Virginia.

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The whole point of the cloud is that it doesn't matter where the servers are physically located. The programming jobs aren't located where the servers are anymore. The servers are in places with cheap real estate and power.

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