2 ms·
On the contrary, Big tech famously has plenty of data centers on the west coast: • Quincy, WA (Microsoft) • The Dalles, Oregon (Google) • Prineville, Oregon
by tobinfekkes 3mo ago
On the contrary, Big tech famously has plenty of data centers on the west coast:
• Quincy, WA (Microsoft)
• The Dalles, Oregon (Google)
• Prineville, Oregon (Facebook, Apple)
• Hillsboro, Oregon (Cloudflare, others)
• Boardman, Oregon (AWS)
- Anon1096 3mo agoBy traffic load east coast datacenters dwarfs these.
- tobinfekkes 3mo agoThe parent comment wasn't regarding traffic loads; it was regarding latency.
- Anon1096 3mo agoYour experienced latency will be heavily influenced by which DC you hit, in which case we care about the relative traffic loads because you aren't just hitting your closest one all the time.