In the real world, you can't just optimise for the sake of it. You need to get a business case for it. Because it all boils down to revenue vs expenses
You could do the maths on conversion rate increase if that latency disappeared vs the cost of spinning up a dc & running it (including the mess that is localised dbs)
I’m not sure the economics works out for most businesses (I say this as an Australian)
Never lived in Australia I see