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You can "choose" insofar as you can email support and they can manually change what data-center your next VM and all subsequent ones will be built in. It really should be exposed through the API, but the people who write the customer-facing API haven't done it.

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That is not the story I got when I contacted support and asked if I could deploy a VM specifically to the Chicago cloud. Rackspace's support told me this was not possible an I'd have to setup an entirely new account in order to deploy to that data center.

Well, I guess that's one way of doing it. :(

I wrote the code in question, though. It wasn't supposed to be an _advertised_ option, but when I wrote it it was supposed to be a usable one.

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