[gtsteve]

Asking as an ignorant foreigner: Does anyone know what makes us-west more expensive than us-east? Is it just land or electricity prices or something like that?

[fulafel]

It's near rich SV customers, so maybe customer value due to latency?

[ccannon]

Our Amazon rep tells us it's all about the cost of electricity.

[late2part]

11c/kWh in bay area, 6c/kWh in Oregon and Nevada. Old data here but salient: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/10/27/141766341/the-p...