Just in my honest opinion I think we should be placing the server in a place where it reduces the ping for the country's that have the highest ping.
this is the worst idea ever. The only way to give asian players or players in europe any type of competitive ping will be to move the shard into asia or europe. And looking through all the data that asian players have posted, their best ping from san jose will be at 154. However in doing so, you are causing east coast players to get into the 80s and 90s, and there are a lot more eastern based players than asian players on this shard. And by east coast players, I mean the entire east coast, not just 1 state.
The trade off is simply not worth it. The asian community will never have any type of fair environments on this server until technology can remove distance and hops from the equations.
A centralized texas server is going to give the central players about 20-30 ping, east and west coast around 40-50(outliers excluded). If you say this isn't a fair compromise, you are being a sore loser.
or if you place it on west its looking like this: 30 50 80, or east it will be 80 50 30. Looks a lot better to have it centralized and looking much more like 45 25 45. I ping 42 now, trust me with 45 ping you can do anything you've ever wanted to do on this shard. You move quick.