This September, Danbury, Connecticut’s mayor and Frisco, Texas’s, mayor both released videos asking a charming, robotic personal assistant variations of the same question: “Alexa, where should Amazon HQ2 go?” To Danbury’s Mayor, Alexa says, obediently, “Danbury, Connecticut.” To Frisco’s, Alexa declares “Frisco.”
Other larger cities subsequently co-opted the same stunt, but Danbury and Frisco are bound by a unique sort of competitive spirit: in the quest for Amazon’s second headquarters, they’re long-shot bidders.
