Brody Ford

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Right.

If you're sitting in California or Seattle, which is where a lot of experienced cloud infrastructure people sit and you hear, let's move to Nashville.

Maybe you love country music and you're stoked.

But in a lot of cases that we're hearing, they say, well, you know, there's not a whole lot of industry out there.

What if I move out there and I get laid off?

So this is one of these tales of the tech industry wanting to become more distributed across the U.S., lower cost of living, lower taxes.

But your talented workforce is still clustering in these West Coast hubs.

Yeah, I mean, they're excited, right?

You hear one of the most important tech companies wants to bring 8,000 workers and develop a new campus.

That's great news for local economic development.

Just the question will be, how long does it take to attract all of these people?

What does it look like?

And does it bring these network effects?

I mean, the campus is on track.

They are developing it.

It's just a question of hiring at this point.

Well, that's what's so interesting about the HQ designation, right?

I mean, Larry Ellison spends most of his time in Hawaii or Florida.

Old CEO Safra Katz did as well.