How two cities brought fiber to the home when the carriers couldn't

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6. They brag about that too...

Moses Lake has the fastest Internet in the US...which is also why Moses Lake has BMW's carbon fiber factory, and a factory that makes car airbags, several data centers (Yahoo and Microsoft I know about and I think there's one other), a company that makes silane gas (it's like methane but the carbon atom is replaced with a silicon atom; this is used to make high purity wafers for microchip production and also solar cells), a factory that makes those little cranes with work platforms on the boom that sign shops and building repair companies use...there's more I'm not remembering (I print Moses Lake's newspaper), but they have used this fiber backbone to turn a farm town into a place that would thrive if the world stopped eating apples and potatoes and never started again.