There’s a very interesting discussion thread happening in the cloud-computing group on “Follow the law” computing.. James Urquhart first started the discussion asking
why not consider moving workload to wherever the current task is “most legal” using a combination of database sharding, database replication and vmotion/livemotion.
A lively discussion followed and there are opinions from both sides. Reuven Cohen also wrote a piece on The Geopolitical Cloud a while back. Definitely follow the thread and read more.