Virgin Atlantic suspends its route from London to Austin because it says the city’s tech boom is over::Virgin Atlantic in a Friday statement said that in Austin “demand in the tech sector is not set to improve in the near term.”

  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I thought we were the only one! We had a small office for about 10 employees. We were planning on expanding and buying a building. But then, we just made them all remote and stopped that Texas expansion.

    Why? Because it’s REALLY F’en hard to have a tech company when power can’t be guaranteed.

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      1 year ago

      It’s almost like Texas in general is a shit hole and tech companies shouldn’t bother with the state in general. I have no clue why there even was a boom in Austin due to the stupidly shit power grid in the first place.

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        Mostly because for a while, Austin had dirt-cheap corporate real estate.