Amazon said no to cactus, yes to data in hunt for new office


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 07 Nov 2018

A building in the Crystal City area of Arlington, Virginia that Amazon.com is reportedly considering as part of its new second headquarters is seen in Arlington, Virginia, U.S. November 6, 2018. Amazon is planning to split its second headquarters evenly between two cities with the Crystal City area among the finalists with which Amazon is now holding advanced talks. REUTERS/Al Drago

Amazon.com Inc’s 14-month search for a second headquarters is coming to an anti-climatic conclusion: The company is said to be picking at least two, smaller locations, and will likely use data from the hundreds of cities that applied to plan a longer-term, more incremental expansion. 

Over the course of its much-hyped selection process, Amazon gathered information from 238 municipalities wooed into the running for the e-commerce giant’s next campus, which came with promises for 50,000 new high-paying tech jobs and US$5bil (RM20.85bil) in investment. Cities from coast to coast and even Canada tripped over themselves to offer incentives from tax breaks to a 20-foot-tall cactus and even the renaming of cities, and politicians, themselves. 

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