I think random doesn’t necessarily mean an even spread as someone noted above… I doubt it’s cloud-data center related if not just xorspace oddness?
Even if data is random, the node locations in xorspace are random, but finite… There’s only 18 of them (adults storing data), spread out over the whole space. And I doubt they are spread evenly (what would be the probability of that?) which would be a prerequisite for an even spread of data over these nodes, no?
@mav has previously done some work showing how xorspace doesn’t actually spread as we might expect
Overall, at the moment it’s something interesting to keep an eye on perhaps. More testing with more adults would be interesting to see if there is any statistically significant skew over many testnets.