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This isn't even close to true. You can just go on Google Maps and visually see the literally *hundreds* of wholly-owned and custom built data centers from AWS, MS, and Google. Edge locations (like Cloud CDN) are often in colos, but the main regions compute/storage are not. Most of them are even labeled on Google Maps. Here's a couple search terms you can just type into Google Maps and see a small fraction of what I m…
While the OP is more wrong than right they aren't completely incorrect. I'm in Australia. GCP has 2 regions in Australia, Sydney and Melbourne. The Sydney region is in the Equinox DC. Not sure where the Melbourne one is but it isn't a Google-owned facility. You can see this by comparing Google's Data Center list: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/ vs their Cloud Location list https://cloud.google.com…
I agree with you that @anewplace is clearly taking a very US / North America centric view of the world and arrogantly claiming they know everything and telling me I'm some idiot.
Its very telling that @anewplace has gone quiet and not lecturing you in a condescending manner about how you must have "misunderstood".