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