They talked about cross-datacenter and the feasibility of it, but are still in the "discussion" phase.


As far as queues, as long as I'm not queuing for the obvious (EX, PVP, etc), I've never waited longer than a couple minutes as a tank/healer, so I don't think the issue is solely related to that.
It could also be time specific as well (depending when you queue, since you posted at 1am my time on a Sunday, perhaps the server pop was low. I know there are less PFs at that time overall as well)