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Joe8Bit on Jan 9, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Building a Billion User Load Balancer [video]

My intuition tells me it's a combination of:

* They eventually will build one, but Indian consumers are (as of right now) less valuable to them (from an ad targeting perspective) than other geographies e.g. the economic/time/effort investment ROI is better elsewhere in the short term

* SE Asia (and their POPs there) have reasonable connectivity to India, so it might good enough for the time being

noponpop on Jan 9, 2017 [–]

That's not quite the answer he gave to this exact question in the video: geopolitics and cost were the major reasons, they want pops there.

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