Re: How anti-NSA backlash could fracture the Internet along national borders - The Washington Post

John Levine wrote:

I expect we'll hear lots of pontification, quietly fading away when someone explains to the pontificators just how expensive it would be to do what they want, and ask where the money is coming from.

For countries other than US, mandating domestic servers prevents money going away to US through US based companies. It is expensive only for those having foreign servers, which nullifies advantages of global service companies over domestic ones. Masataka Ohta