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Re:US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe a... by petcat on Thursday February 19, 2026 @08:44PM (#47082625)
The datacenter is in Utah, not Virginia.

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

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Re:US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe a... by reactordev on Thursday February 19, 2026 @08:51PM (#47082672)
That’s cold storage
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Re:US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe a... by petcat on Thursday February 19, 2026 @08:58PM (#47082716)
Right, where the copies are stored.
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Re:US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe a... by ascorbic on Friday February 20, 2026 @03:00AM (#47085071)
It's referring to us-east-1
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Re:US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe a... by petcat on Friday February 20, 2026 @06:34AM (#47086704)
Sure, but the specific NSA datacenter that stores copies of every piece of data that transits the internet is in Utah, not Virginia.
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