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Internet firms heading to Eastern Washington state in their quest for power

July 9, 2006 /

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Microsoft is pouring concrete in a bean field on the west end of town. Yahoo! is digging up a field of alfalfa out on the east end. Google, which declines to comment, is said to be sniffing around for its own field of dreams here in the semidesert outback of Eastern Washington.

This small farm town, population 5,300, has become the Klondike of the wildly competitive Internet era. The gold in Quincy is electricity, which technology heavyweights need to operate ever-larger data centers as they fight for world domination.

By Blaine Harden

Washington Post

Full Story; http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003114987_microsoft09.html

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