He was likely referring to the claim that 70% of the internet flows through Loudon County, Virginia, where AWS us-east-1 is located, although the more accurate number is probably somewhere around 22%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudoun_County,_Virginia#Econo...

Every cloud provider worth talking about is there too. Both public and sovereign/gov data centers.

And of course all the privately owned ones too. It is bananas. Not just because of government either - low ping times to the biggest population center of North America.