On 02/08/2012, at 10:28 AM, Joel Wirāmu Pauling
Rather than trying to justify having these tiny pockets of population because of North/South rivalries that are only actually important inside NZ how about trying to show some national pride and say "hey content people, here's the place to be in NZ" and demand that it gets delivered inside your country.
This really isn't about North and South Rivalry.
It makes sense because of Geographic features, we would be stupid to put it in to Wellington (Earthquakes), Auckland sits on a Volcanic field and already has both landing sites.
Hamilton is in-land?
Invercargill hell, even Westport on the other hand would make for good landing sites, and create a demand for better national connectivity.
Entire USA West Coast is a fault line. All the SCCN landing stations are on it, as are all the major data centres. Hawaii (where both legs of SCCN go through) is a series of volcanos, some active! Ultimately you can place it where ever you want. It doesn't matter much as long as: a) The data centre is a very good quality one with lots of power and people who are clueful and sane commercially (ie. don't act like d**ks because your _THE_ site to go). b) It has good onsite services so that my NOC guys can call up and get stuff done 24x7 c) It has *freaking awesome* connectivity to *EVERY* provider in NZ that matters, including TNZ, TC, Vodafone etc so that one deployment can pickup almost all of NZ and that access to the landing stations or connectivity out of NZ is cheap and easy. d) Less importantly it's easy to get to from Auckland airport, it's got a good hotel nearby and some nice food. As long as a,b and c are met then people will start appearing. Build it and they will come. MMC