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Which Countries Have The Most Data Centers?
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The more I think about it, the less sense this graphic has
just checking on wikipedia, divided by area GB should have bar around twice high as Germany. 209k m^2 vs 357k m^2
big as a city sprawling datacenter complex and a bunch of racks in the cellar both count as 1?
If you follow the trail you get Cloudscene as a source: https://cloudscene.com/region/datacenters-in-north-america
They seem to be some cloud services marketplaces, where they link up buyers and sellers. I suspect it only lists the data centers that they have listed that are included in the graphic. That would make a lot of sense, since Chinese data centers used to service people in China are unlikely to be listed, which is why it says in all of China there are only 300 data centers.
Yeah, this dataset seems very incomplete/limited. I'd also argue that the US probably doesn't have over 5000, as many of these vendors have their "own DC" that's just hoteled inside the same giant multi-building complex.