tl;dr:
Gmail(USA) required to provide data of persons in the USA, of communications between people in the USA orded by a USA judge.
Sounds fine with me, even when Google has it hosted in some other country, this seems to me a fine example of correct usage of the law and jurisdiction
Yea, it seems like if they found the other way, every sizable corporation, or really any sizable group, would host all their data in the Cayman Islandsor wherever, making them more or less immune from US subpoenas. Which would be bad for any attempt to hold them legally accountable (and, relevant to the HN crowd, bad for Tech workers in the US as storage providers move their facilities over-seas).
Sounds fine with me, even when Google has it hosted in some other country, this seems to me a fine example of correct usage of the law and jurisdiction