Irrelevent. See:
must apply the child VPN prohibition to the provider of any relevant VPN service which is, or is likely to be—
(i) offered or marketed to *persons in the* United Kingdom;
(ii) provided to a significant number of persons
>“relevant VPN service” means a service of providing, in the course of a business, to a consumer, a virtual private network for accessing the internet;
I think it would be a significant stretch to say that a provider that provisions a VPS instance is a "business providing a virtual private network".
Just because you could run a VPN, it's not the VPS provider that is offering a VPN service.
I can't see how they could apply it to VPS providers without meaning AWS, GCP, Digital Ocean, etc would all start having to do age verification checks. Can't imagine here would not be a massive push back against that.
I think they would include AWS and the pushback would be ineffective. Many AWS users could be immediately age-verified by existing payment card info.
Paying by card isn't enough to verify age. They'd have to specifically verify via passport or other ID.
It is in UK.
Ofcom, the media regulator, has set out a number of ways websites can verify the age of users, external, including through credit card checks ...