Although, as a sibling comment points out, that article is very old, I can attest to its continuing general accuracy, having interviewed there last year.

Although I didn't get a look at their financials, my overall impression is that they can't afford anything as extravagant as geographic distribution, absent a huge corporate sponsor or two.

Even a modest increase in donation revenue would be unlikely to make a difference, as the other impression I had was that spending in that area was far from a priority, especially compared with data acquisition/conversion projects.

I think it's great that the IA is attempting to be a broad, general-interest digital library, since nobody else is doing that.

However, I also wish for a separate archive focused specifically on The Web. Besides not being subject to distractions or competing interests, I speculate that it would be more attractive for web-dependent companies, such as Google or CDNs, to donate to.

There's been at least a partial copy in Alexandria and Amsterdam for a long time, and they opened a full replica in Canada last year. At least I think the Canada one is done, can't find a blog post saying it was finished. https://blog.archive.org/2016/12/03/faqs-about-the-internet-...

Was not aware; this is excellent news!

Note this is an extremely old webpage.