The cloud isn't a cloud. It's a building — with a parking lot, a power bill, and a legal jurisdiction. And wherever that building is located, those laws govern your most personal information. In this video, I explain data centers and data sovereignty as if you were five years old. We'll cover: how a server request travels across the world in under half a second, why Virginia hosts more data capacity than anywhere else on Earth, how the US CLOUD Act reaches data stored in Ireland, and why the EU's GDPR created a genuine legal firewall around European data. Cities are competing to host these buildings. Countries are writing laws about them. Billions in fines have already been handed out. And yet, most people who use apps every day are unaware that any of this exists.
