Verizon has scheduled to open up a new presence in the UK by next year, aimed at the European market. It's services, called "CaaS" (Compute-as-a-Service) is basically a IaaS offering. Not surprisingly, the primary reasons for establishing a data center in the UK is to minimize latency and address data location issues, thereby complying to the EU privacy regulations. From ZDNet UK:
Region-specific facilities are necessary for two reasons — latency and data location, Beaumont said. By having the service come from a local facility, latency can be reduced, and the company can track the geographical location of customer data by using its own network. This helps "with some of the regulatory type of issues", Beaumont said. "If you're a company, some have issues with things like safe harbour or the Patriot Act, so they feel much more comfortable with those resources residing outside the US rather than in the US," he added
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