Two more reasons not yet mentioned:

It is close to a population center (Phoenix) keeping latency low to customers. Getting customers off the public Internet quickly and into your private network fast is best for a lot of reasons.

Cheap and abundant solar power. Data centers are extremely power hungry and power lines are expensive so companies like Amazon almost always secure abundant power rights before building. Google built their first data center in The Dalles Oregon because an aluminum smelter had gone belly up and left a bunch of capacity unclaimed in a local hydroelectric dam.

Long cat

Long cat

He is long

And is a cat

Long cat

Disclosure: my wife is the singer songwriter in the house so this is technically her’s

Their initial reply to you is sarcastic. They were agreeing with you, not arguing with you

Effectuate

I’m going to effectuate this pole right up the ass of the next person to use that word.