They are also in process of building out in Finland (https://www.cinia.fi/en/archive/hetzner-data-center-park-hel...). There's a direct GER-FIN fiber link laid in the Baltic, owned partially by Hetzner (https://www.cinia.fi/en/services/international-connectivity-...).

Makes Finland sense if you want to connect to Asian customers? Is there a good link Finland-JP/Korea/Singapore?

Otherwise I fail to see why Finland makes sense, unless you need cheaper energy for applications that don't need low latency.

We do have cheap energy (from nuclear and mostly renewable CHP), cheap cooling, availability of educated workforce and stable state. And good network connections to Russia in addition to Nordic and Baltic states and continental Europe.

But latency to Russia and Baltic states isn't that different from where Hetzner already is. I just try to understand why people would choose Hetzner's new DC in Finland over that in Germany unless they offer cheaper prices there.

Cheaper to keep cool.

That's interesting! Thanks for pointing out.

Looks like it, according to the features/location:

   We host our cloud instances in our own data centers in Nuremberg and Falkenstein. And we operate our data centers in accordance with ISO 27001 guidelines while also adhering to strict German data protection regulations.

I wish they'd offer could service hosted in South Africa.

Hetzner Cloud servers are based in Nürnberg and Falkenstein.

yes, it is. German laws for data protection apply.

Not German, but European Laws apply.

This ( http://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj ) replaces all data proyection laws in the EU.

Must comply now, but sanctions won't be in effect until may 25th.

EDIT: I seem to be wrong. This is a hybrid of a EU regulation that needs to be implemented into local law, and "EU law" that has direct application everywhere. Also there are specific rules on how much stronger the member states can make their local rules. I'm leaving my error in the text below.

That is not technically correct, and the difference matters.

The EU regulation forces it's members to implement their own local laws in alignment to the EU regulation. The EU regulation can get a member state into trouble if not implemented in time or correctly. They describe a set of "baseline" data protection laws for the whole EU, but the members can still have stronger local rules. Only the local law is what can get a resident company in trouble.

Germany has (had for a long time) very strong data protection laws that are still going to be stronger than the EU regulation.

Your comment is not strictly "wrong", as you say, it's just that the law is changing. The new regulation comes in* on May 25th. Your comment correctly describes the current system, which is being replaced.

* By "comes in", I mean begins being enforced. There's been a 2 year grace period as advance notice.