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How do actual numbers pale in comparison to a number that was nothing more than projected for some hazy undetermined future date? That 25K number was only ever qualified as "over the next decade."

Google on the other hand bought 111 8th ave 8 years ago(houses 7K employees) and now they are opening a new space in the same area that will house an additional 12K more employees[1]. That will bring their total to 19K employees in a 10 year time frame.

And this was all done without extracting corporate subsidies and without all the pageantry.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-plans-large-new-york-cit...




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