They were and then they pulled out.
Google's peering philosophy seems to change about every 3-5 years so it wouldn't surprise me at all if they build out to the midwest (outside of Chicago) again.
As someone who is in the IX, Datacenter and Access businesses I can tell you that I've seen a major migration of content networks into tier 2/3 markets, especially in the Midwest/Great Plains areas over the last year or two. Google will come back eventually.
Aaron
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(Would be even
better for Google to build in to Minneapolis so that we can all turn up more local PNIs but they haven’t been interested in my views on this.
😊)