[tobinfekkes]

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)

[Anon1096]

By traffic load east coast datacenters dwarfs these.

[tobinfekkes]

The parent comment wasn't regarding traffic loads; it was regarding latency.

[Anon1096]

Your experienced latency will be heavily influenced by which DC you hit, in which case we care about the relative traffic loads because you aren't just hitting your closest one all the time.