I don’t store anything on the “cloud,” and I’ve told anyone and everyone I know not to trust it. As for where to build one, I don’t really have an answer for you because I know that building them here is destroying everything around them and making people sick. Build them in Europe, the UK, in space (!!!), uninhabited islands out to sea, anywhere but here.
You may think you don’t store anything in the cloud, but pretty much everyone you deal with does.
Ever hear of AWS or GDS?
That’s Amazon Web Services and Google Data Services. They’ve been building Data Centers around the US for years.
That’s where your bank’s, your doctor’s, or your hospital’s data lives. That’s the ‘cloud’.