Server Locations

MEGA stores Data (categorised in our Privacy and Data Policy as “Your Files”, “Your Chats”, “Account Data” and “Usage Data”) in data centres in the European Union and/or other countries, namely New Zealand, Japan and Canada, that the European Commission has determined have an adequate level of protection under Article 45 of the General Data Protection Regulation and which have comparable protections to those given under the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020.

These countries are:

To reduce network latency when Your Files are uploaded or downloaded by users in certain countries, MEGA may temporarily store additional copies of Your Files (which are encrypted) on servers in other countries. Some related Usage Data may also be generated on those servers. Currently, MEGA uses servers in Mongolia to temporarily store Data for users who reside in or near Mongolia, but their files are also stored in the datacentres listed above.