[jkent]

I would think that Google probably don't need or want to colo in Manhattan. Jersey is only milliseconds away.

That being said, a growing NY engineering staff probably don't want to be in Garden City.

[cma]

It is actually less than a millisecond away, even within fiber, which is a bit slower than vacuum.

[oiuytriuytr]

And there's enough existing spare capacity to run the amount of data a facility like this is going to handle?