Anyone else finding it difficult to create a new character recently?

Just returned to the game from a 6 month break, thought I'd create a new character as I want to re-do the story again and now sat at character creation with no world available on Chaos (EU "Datacenter") to put the character on.

I read SE were actually creating a proper EU datacenter rather than running it in Canada but surely they should be doing something about the over populated worlds before then?

Have to wait a while to get on with my pre-existing characters as it is due to world queues.

Come on SE, what's going on?