This is funny. Google used to have clusters in Virginia. Not in Ashburn, but close, in a colo facility. You wanted to use them if you cared about latency to e.g

This is funny. Google used to have clusters in Virginia. Not in Ashburn, but close, in a colo facility. You wanted to use them if you cared about latency to e.g. Philly, NYC and Boston. Then they were turned down because of all the capacity that was brought up on the East Coast in its own facilities.