Because if you want to make something there will be customers in the US.
And if you are making something interesting that utilizes the internets USP, it will have real-time communication between your customers.
And in the US if users from the east coast connect to something with the same latency as users from the west coast that evens out the advantages.
If you are making a static homepage then of course it doesn't matter because what you are making could also be a book or even a stone tablet.
The content always comes from the older medium until the new medium figures out it's own content at which point the old medium dies. See opera, theater, radio, television, youtube, twitch, etc. etc.
The final medium is the open 3D action MMO, be it in VR or not.
5 years ago i decided to never work on something that could not be sold globally, it's a good decision because it leans into the future.
You need one server in each region, but centrally in each region.
In europe there are maybe 20 actors for each of the many central countries (Germany, Belgium and Switzerland)... in the US there are only 2 (that I could find that allows me to remotely get a VPS): GCP in Omaha and IONOS in Kansas City!!!
AWS only has regions on the coasts!
You also only use these low latency "edge" servers for real-time (encrypted if you have private data) and keep the database and patch data on your own physical servers as they are not latency sensitive!
Clouds have very expensive networking and disk costs compared to buying hardware and hosting it on your home fiber! But you cannot live on all 3 major continents (EU, US, and Asia)!!!
Eventually people will exchange VPS on their home fiber, if you live in central US or Asia and want to exchange a VPS (preferably redundant 2x locations and on fiber with static IP and lead-acid power backup) for home hosted VPS in Sweden let me know!
As for building something on the internet for only people living in the UK that is meaningless.
Our customers in Scandinavia are asking us to stop using American cloud providers for their sensitive data, even though the datacentres are Scandinavia.
And if you are making something interesting that utilizes the internets USP, it will have real-time communication between your customers.
And in the US if users from the east coast connect to something with the same latency as users from the west coast that evens out the advantages.
If you are making a static homepage then of course it doesn't matter because what you are making could also be a book or even a stone tablet.
The content always comes from the older medium until the new medium figures out it's own content at which point the old medium dies. See opera, theater, radio, television, youtube, twitch, etc. etc.
The final medium is the open 3D action MMO, be it in VR or not.
5 years ago i decided to never work on something that could not be sold globally, it's a good decision because it leans into the future.