Some customers demand to know which jurisdiction their data is stored in, so it isn't as simple as "move it somewhere friendlier". You have control if you are

Some customers demand to know which jurisdiction their data is stored in, so it isn't as simple as "move it somewhere friendlier". You have control if you are running your own services on top of the main cloud providers, but if it is in O365 or GMail/GApps it used to be a different story, and this precluded their use by a bunch of .au organisations (universities, Govt departments) early on. So now some of these orgs that need to have data stored in .au for privacy reasons (among other reasons) are subject to these new badly formed laws in some kind of twisted catch-22.