Marseille Datacenter

The Mediterranean gateway

Our Marseille datacenter, FR-MRS-1, sits inside the Interxion MRS3 campus on the Saint-Charles harbor district. Marseille is geographically and economically unique among French cities: it's the landing point for 14 active submarine cables connecting Europe to North Africa, Italy, the Middle East, and South Asia. For workloads that need to terminate near these cables, Marseille is the only French option that makes sense.

Latency from FR-MRS-1 to Algiers is 12 ms. To Tunis, 14 ms. To Cairo, 38 ms. To Mumbai (over the SeaMeWe-5 cable), 130 ms. These are competitive with or better than any African or Middle Eastern datacenter you could deploy to, while keeping your data under French jurisdiction and EU data protection law.

When to choose Marseille over Paris

• Your audience is in southern France — Marseille shaves 4-6 ms off Paris latency for users in PACA, Occitanie, Corsica.
• You serve North African or Middle Eastern users — the submarine cable proximity is unbeatable.
• You're peered with Italian or Spanish networks — direct routes via the Alpes-Maritimes give 8-10 ms to Milan and 14 ms to Barcelona.
• You're building disaster-recovery topology — Marseille is geographically separated from Paris by 750 km, ideal as a DR pair.

What's available in Marseille

FR-MRS-1 currently offers:

• Cloud VPS — full range
• High Performance VPS — dedicated EPYC cores
• GPU VPS — L4 tier (L40S and H100 require Paris)
• Dedicated Servers — limited stock, contact sales for availability

The submarine cable advantage

If you're building infrastructure that needs to serve users on multiple continents while keeping data within EU jurisdiction, Marseille is the secret weapon most operators don't know about. The cable systems we have direct access to include:

• SeaMeWe-5 — Europe to Singapore via the Suez Canal and Indian Ocean
• AAE-1 — Asia-Africa-Europe-1, terminating Hong Kong
• EIG (Europe India Gateway) — direct India connectivity
• HAWK / 2Africa — pan-African coverage
• BlueMed / IMEWE — additional Middle East and Mediterranean redundancy

For most operators, this access is invisible — you just see "fast latency to Mumbai" or "good performance to Cairo". But if your business depends on those routes, Marseille is the difference between competitive and unviable.