Every environment is a copy of the data, I would imagine. I think you would want to limit spawning of copies of your data in an offshore outsourced environment for security reasons. That's my guess.
Having worked in HFT, we had contractual obligations imposed on us by our customers for this very reason. In our case it wasn’t the data but rather the source code that we sold on to a few large banks that they were concerned for.
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