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Comment by petcat

5 days ago

The datacenter is in Utah, not Virginia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

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reactordev  5 days ago

That’s cold storage

  • petcat  5 days ago

    Right, where the copies are stored.

ascorbic  5 days ago

It's referring to us-east-1

  • petcat  5 days ago

    Sure, but the specific NSA datacenter that stores copies of every piece of data that transits the internet is in Utah, not Virginia.

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