Why is Google building Google Fiber in Provo Utah where the NSA facility is?

The article is nothing about what you're titling it. You are simply speculating, most likely inaccurately, about Google's motivations here.

Maybe because they were able to purchase a lot of existing infrastructure from the city for $1?

http://www.zdnet.com/google-to-buy-39m-provo-fiber-service-f...

Moreover, the linked article makes no mention of the NSA. This baseless Google-related FUD is getting incredibly tiresome.

The NSA facility is not in Provo, it is north of Provo by about 25 miles north near Bluffdale. Furthermore, Google isn't building out Google Fiber as much in Provo as it is simply acquiring the existing former municipal fiber. The article also doesn't mention the NSA. No news connection here, and the title here is misleading.

Because there was fiber there before there was the NSA.

PS: Linkbait

Provo is a budding university town. Bluffdale is where the NSA data center is located. That's more than 20 miles away.

You obviously have no idea what you are talking about.

I would assume its because there was already a bunch of fiber out there from the whole iProvo thing.

Because land and presumably electricity are cheap there?

Good question.