Absolutely.

You can't be me, I'm taken

That's an area where government planning and investment

You must be referring to another country. British government doesn't do planning and investment

keep to the Fen Causeway

The one thing the Tories are doing right is pushing rural Internet. Wiltshire is getting £5 million for a local roll-out, and Somerset is getting something like £15m.

But for cutting-edge hosting, there's no real need to keep a server at home. You can hire or co-locate in London and get all the usual bandwidth and benefits, with remote management. For a lot of applications it's cheaper to do that than it is to buy a custom server and pay for a spare high speed broadband line.

Industrial data centres will usually have a leased line anyway, so they're not so dependent on public broadband.

It does mean they won't be based in the Hebrides, but there's no technical reason why they can't be based in the Midlands.

I know someone who ran a dating site on a cheap PC she kept in a spare bedroom. Initially it was connected to a couple of ISDN lines.

She happened to live in London, but she could have done it anywhere.

She sold the site a few years ago for half a million.