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On the contrary, Big tech famously has plenty of data centers on the west coast:

• Quincy, WA (Microsoft)

• The Dalles, Oregon (Google)

• Prineville, Oregon (Facebook, Apple)

• Hillsboro, Oregon (Cloudflare, others)

• Boardman, Oregon (AWS)

By traffic load east coast datacenters dwarfs these.
The parent comment wasn't regarding traffic loads; it was regarding latency.
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