The USB cable goes through that jog in the case to provide stress relief when someone inevitably tugs on the cable.

The screenshot below shows a sketch (in green) of where the LEDs need to be relative to the key caps and how much space is available for a daughterboard. Check out this photo of an original keyboard and look for the labels "online", "local" and "kbd locked". The original red lights are below those labels.

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