Timwi wrote:
Gerard Meijssen wrote:
I also do not understand your preoccupation with
data centres in the
USA. We are an international organisation. Our customers are all over
this earth.
I do not understand everybody's preoccupation with data centres around
the world. Our "customers" are exclusively Internet users, and the
Internet is global. That servers are faster when they are
geographically closer is a wide-spread myth.
Having data centres around the world is probably more political and
economic than technical. Some valid technical arguments can probably be
made but the non-technical ones tend to influence people much more. For
some people just having things anywhere but the US can be a very
powerful argument. Chirac has already complained about American
domination in the Google project to digitize material in libraries.
Economically it makes good sense to have donations tax deductible in
one's own country, and the laws that deal with that do not look kindly
on the exportation of charitable donations.
Ec