I expect them to move the chaos data center. But the only things about EU datacenters I recall is before fan fast they stating looking into it and at fan fest saying basically we will have them... just looking for the location and infrastructure. But yes I do expect them to move chaos worlds to the EU in full(free transfer won't cut it unless they actually offer full population move).


As for the how long it will take. If you transfer full datadumps via the most bandwidth efficient path(aka load dumps onto many many drives and restore them back on site or even just make clones and slot them in) as long as it takes to load the inital dump, get on a plane to this side and restore. I'd say 4-5 days at max - and then sync them up with live data and just do a mostly seamless transition. And they could even reduce the desync by locking down certain less used features for the time(i.e. changing houses, choco dying, training etc...). Glamours and such. Basically reduce the amount of data that is needed to sync up in the end. This could be done for the most part with players being unaware. They could even take a snapshot and load that then sync it up. And you wouldn't even know it - they would just during a maintenance switch the stuff over and be done with it.