Are You Trying to Seduce Us, Mr. Gates?

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The big boys at Microsoft are looking for a home for a new $600 million data center that would bring with it 100 or so jobs. The frontrunner appears to be San Antonio, but another Texas city (read: Austin) is also in the running. Microsoft and some of their real estate partners have visited the Alamo City a few times and seem serious about building there, and while the new data center would not provide hundreds of jobs, it would be a shot in the arm for San Antonio's slowly growing tech field. Considering the inroads made in scouting San Antonio, we are not sure what Austin's chances are of landing the tech behemoth here, but we'll keep an eye on it for you.

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