> But I do wonder why UK. eh? because there are lots of customers there, including rich businesses who want to pay for cloud hosting in the UK legal jurisdict

> But I do wonder why UK. eh? because there are lots of customers there, including rich businesses who want to pay for cloud hosting in the UK legal jurisdiction with low latency. Google already has datacentres in neighbouring countries - Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, Finland, etc - and already has a cloud region in the UK so it's not very surprising to do some infill.