[nindalf]

I don't think so. Planning, constructing a data center and setting up all the hardware within and the connectivity to the data center is a massive investment of time and resources. These newly announced centers have been in the pipeline for a long time, long before anyone had any idea about the outcome of the election.

The more likely cause was that cloud providers could see the trend towards countries instituting data residency requirements, which was clear last year.

[Slippery_John]

New regions seem to be announced well ahead of time [0] though I'm not sure how far in advance. I think I recall seeing the London region months ago.

[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/