Next month, UK-based Interoute will open a new Virtual Data Center (VDC) in Frankfurt, Germany.

VDC is the term used by the company to describe its Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering, delivered via Interoute’s own fiber network.

The new facility aims to satisfy growing demand for cloud services from German businesses, which will soon be legally required to keep most of their data within the country’s borders.

Interoute has been operating a VDC in Berlin since 2012. And last month, it announced two additional VDC locations in London.

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Interoute is the operator of Europe’s largest cloud services platform. It owns 67,000 km of fiber linking 11 data centers and 40 additional colocation facilities.

Earlier this week, the company announced its 12^th data center, to be located in Frankfurt, the digital hub of the country.

Interoute says its VDC infrastructure can be deployed in a matter of minutes for as little as €0.02 per server, per hour. It sales up automatically, and offers ultra-low in-country latency.

“Expanding the application universe that can be moved to the cloud is central to Interoute’s approach,” said Matthew Finnie, CTO.

“Critical from a German perspective is data control and location. Our dual zone approach and free network enables in-country resilience coupled with low latency, minimizing code rewrites. Combine this with Interoute’s unique public-private cloud capabilities and developers are able to create virtual environments with levels of separation unique in a cloud environment.”

Start-ups can test VDC through a program called Jump StartUp, which offers 2GB of RAM, two vCPUs and 60GB of storage for a year, completely free of charge.

The company has recently eliminated colocation pach charges at all of its European facilities, describing them an unfair "tax" on on digital businesses.