I have several static IP Addresses in Google Cloud Platform in the zone europe-west3. However, I just noticed that they all are traced back to California, US, which totally defeats the purpose. They should resolve to Frankfurt!
It is not the same with south-eastasia static IP which correctly resolve in Singapore.
Why is it different with the europe ones? I have privacy complaints for customers now. Google support seems to be rather unavailable.
In general: an ip-address tells you nothing about the actual physical location of the system using that ip-address nor the jurisdiction the system falls under, because IP-addresses can by routed to every corner of the earth and beyond.
In absence of more reliable data points the geographical location attributed to an IP-address is usually taken from the contact information in the "ownership" records of the IP-address range. That will usually be the street address of the head quarters or the main network engineering department of an organisation, other IP-address ranges can be the property of local subsidiary companies with a street addresses of a local branch office and almost never the address of the datacenter housing your server.
