TechFlash reports that Seattle will submit a proposal to Google to woo that company to build a 1 gigabit-per-second fiber-to-the-home network here. As I wrote yesterday , Google wants to test and showcase what a network that leapfrogs anything offered in this (and most) countries can pull off. Seattle's CTO, Bill Schrier, thinks Seattle has a lot to bring to the table, including 100,000 utility poles owned by Seattle City Light.

Seattle mayor Mike McGinn put out a press release this afternoon touting the city's high penetration of Internet use, its 500 miles of fiber already used for government and school purposes, and its use of computers in every police and fire vehicle along with video cameras in patrol cars.

McGinn points out this would all be great for "business and economic developent."

He didn't note it would also be freaking cool to have Google pull a few hundred million dollars out of its vast cache store and build us the best network in the world.