OVH to establish North American headquarters and first U.S. data center

One of the reasons why the massive OVH datacenter is in its particular location in Quebec is the extremely cheap power from Quebec Hydro. At one time I checked and the large customer rate was 5.6 cents (Canadian!) per kWh. I am curious how much they are going to pay in VA and why they didn't choose to build a datacenter somewhere in OR or WA near the Columbia River hydroelectric systems instead.

&gt;&gt; &quot;Virginia successfully competed against North Carolina for the project, which will create 54 new jobs&quot;<p>How many people typically work at a data center for one of the largest hosting companies in the world?<p>Because 54 jobs seems kind of low, no?

I would love OVH if they would finally implement automatic recurring credit card billing. Ive been asking them for years. What a horrible single point of failure that is.

So does this make my data with them fall under the category of American companies and is not subject to warrant less searches? Or only their VA data center?

This is the third time OVH has been just about to build a US datacenter in the past five years.

I believe reasonably priced dedicated servers (from companies like OVH, Hetzner) will be big thing in future. Cloud based virtual machines are useful for many tasks, but it is also pretty nice to get 256GB&#x2F;6 core&#x2F;4TB machine for 140€ per month.

OVH has great prices, especially on the SoYouStart line. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.soyoustart.com&#x2F;ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;essential-servers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.soyoustart.com&#x2F;ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;essential-servers&#x2F;</a>

How much has the data center growth curve been dampened by Amz&#x2F;Msft&#x2F;Goog offerings?

&gt; Governor McAuliffe approved a $1.25 million grant from the Commonwealth’s Opportunity Fund to assist Fauquier County with the project. The company will also be eligible to receive sales and use tax exemptions on equipment.<p>Was this worth 54 (unspecified types) jobs? I guess It&#x27;s not that bad since it doesn&#x27;t mention property tax exemption which usually goes along with new developments.

Great. If they figure out the ordering system, it could be interesting. Last time (3 months ago) to install 200 servers (that they claim to have up in 120sec) would take 9 weeks, even if with our long term commitment.

It may become difficult for OVH (based in France) to survive with Amazon and Azure deploying servers in France, don&#x27;t you think ?

Bit too late for this game as AWS is expanding constantly in both Americas