Nitin Rao announced on March 29, 2018 that three new data centers have been launched in the Southern United States, specifically in Jacksonville (Florida), Memphis (Tennessee), and Tallahassee (Florida). These additions bring the total number of cities across Cloudflare's global network to 146, with 42 of them being in North America. The new data centers help reduce latency for millions of Internet properties using Cloudflare while expanding their capacity to handle attacks.