The cost of bandwidth for US servers is little of an advantage to the tech start up (or later) world. Being outside the US doesn't make using US servers more ex

The cost of bandwidth for US servers is little of an advantage to the tech start up (or later) world. Being outside the US doesn't make using US servers more expensive, plus, when you are the size of those you mentioned, you are multi-national anyway. Servers need to be near the consumers, not their owner; and again multinationals will have servers on each continent. One significant advantage for the US is that you have 300m customers to hand, while European citizens will have a 'only' a home market 60-100m. To move above that, you have to deal with multiple languages, legal systems and tax issues etc. So where would you start? Not to mention it is also the richest country, low tax (especially if you are choosing your state), and seems to have no other major issues (decent education system). The VCs multiply the advantage, as does the community that arises because it is attractive in the first place.