User count by Geo

Currently, there is very little information available regarding the Usage Reporting tile named User count by Geo. Only the cryptic message There is no information available for user count by geo appears in the preview tile. So, what is this exactly?

In March 2018, the European Union passed something called the GDPR. In a nutshell, this says that for privacy and law enforcement reasons, users in Europe must have their data stored in Europe. To help globally distributed companies comply with the requirements of GDPR, Microsoft added a capability named "Multi-Geo" to Office 365 and Azure.

Since both Multi-Geo and GDPR are very new, we have not yet seen any instances of customers seeking to enable this feature although we expect ...

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