Amazon is currently working to set up three different entities here in Columbus. It sounds like there will be two data centers and one shipping.

The shipping center makes sense because Columbus is already one of this country’s biggest shipping centers. So, we have all the support businesses for that. We have the airports and the highways to handle a large section of middle America.

Columbus, while maybe not known to a lot, is also a strong data/computing center. Why? Lots of federal government, Ohio State University and Battelle research (government research) and even some of the roots to the ‘net still linger around here. Compuserve was here.

With info coming out about how Amazon operates, I don’t know if this is a good thing for Columbus or bad.