Can cloud infrastructure centralize Kaspa's network?

Cloud infrastructure can reduce latency variance across the network, but it also introduces centralization risks that physical distance alone does not. When many nodes run on the same cloud provider, they share underlying infrastructure and routing controls — meaning a single provider's policies or outages can affect a large slice of the network at once. At the same time, variance in latency, the need for cross-region communication to maintain global consensus, and independent peer selection all push back against that concentration, ensuring geographic structure persists across the network. For a beginner, this means that where a node is hosted matters: diversity of hosting providers is part of what keeps a proof-of-work network genuinely decentralized.