alt Hacker NewsI think it's not unreasonable to see this as a first, positive, step.
It's certainly giving them some benefit of the doubt, but it doesn't seem unreasonable that, say, the EU server and the US backup will in some time be an EU server and an EU backup.
Indeed; see also the top thread discussing that, as I don’t have anything to add to the ground already covered: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223931