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Nope, the mean population center of the contiguous United States is somewhere west of St. Louis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_center_of_the_United_Stat...

Actually not too far away from the geographic center which is somewhere in Kansas.




That doesn't disagree with what I said. The majority is still in the East (the mean is East of the geographic center), and you don't want to optimize for average latency anyway. You'll get the best median latency with two datacenters by putting one on the mid-Atlantic coast (~180M people East of the Mississippi) and one on the mid-Pacific coast (another 50M in Pacific Coast states). That means the latency for ~2/3 of the population is way lower, and the max latency is still about the same as putting them in the center of the country.




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