Dulles Technology Corridor

Another article in 2000 claimed that the area contained "vital electronic pathways that carry more than half of all traffic on the Internet.

It especially includes the communities, from east to west, of Tysons Corner, Reston, Herndon, Sterling, and Ashburn.

These communities are in Fairfax and Loudoun counties, which are the second-highest and highest income counties in the U.S. as of 2011, coinciding with the national technology and local internet boom of the 1990s and local technology spending after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

[3] In his book Tubes, author Andrew Blum calls Ashburn, Virginia—a community within the Dulles Technology Corridor—"the bullseye of America's Internet.

[8] According to U.S. News & World Report, "Northern Virginia remains popular, in part because it has some of the country's cheapest electricity rates.