You can say many, many bad things about the Tennessee Valley Authority, but they have not had the sort of tragicomic power outages that Texas has had in the last decade.
Poking around at fiber connections it looks like some important trunk lines from Atlanta to Chicago pass through or outside Nashville, so there’s that.
It’s also a crossroads town. There are three highways that cross at Nashville.
A friend(neighbor) lived in Austin, alot of bad trends happening right now. You mentioned power and that made the national headlines, but they also said weather(extremely hot) was why they moved, I think it was like 40 straight days where it hit triple digits(summer 2023). Top that off with housing that is really expensive and homeless issues that are very bad and I could see why a company could relocate elsewhere.
I don't live in Nashville, but it's a pretty cool town. I was there just before the last Eclipse and I found it a vibrant and beautiful city. So it's not like they are moving to Nowhere, Alaska.
Well there was that time they dumped 1.1 billion gallons of fly ash slurry into a river, just off the top of my head.
When I lived in the midwest I vaguely recall people complaining about them for other reasons (but PGE seems to be doing more for people to bitch about. Or more precisely, doing less than they should).
I have the vaguest of recollections of foot dragging around coal plant emissions but that could just be the 1.1 BILLION GALLONS of fly ash water talking.
Poking around at fiber connections it looks like some important trunk lines from Atlanta to Chicago pass through or outside Nashville, so there’s that.
It’s also a crossroads town. There are three highways that cross at Nashville.