[everfrustrated]

The underlying reason is more that by being in us east coast you have about equal latency for customers in us west coast and Europe. That's a very large population covered from a single site.

If you're building a single datacenter site this is where you start building first.

[aeyes]

LATAM as well, all major submarine cables land on the east coast. Surprisingly even from Mexico the latency is often better to US East.