We're there because it's where we've found reliable enough remote hands and network. And yes, the thread model of "the USA goes off the internet" is bad enough that we figure things are much worse than us being much use at that point.

And regarding the privacy risk, we haven't seen a credible threat that would have our servers accessed directly by US law enforcement that isn't just as credible anywhere else in the world. It hasn't happened, we don't believe it will happen.

So yeah, we disappear in an interesting little thought experiment like this one (despite having Australian-owned IP space, it's advertised and routed into our US locations, so fair enough it's blocked in this case)

I do think the timing is ripe for us to look at having more datacenters around the world again. We have had both Iceland and Amsterdam locations in the past, and neither were reliable enough to put production traffic to, multiple hour network outages and inability to contact support and get them fixed - but maybe the landscape has changed enough that it's viable again now.