Comment on Which Countries Have The Most Data Centers?

terraborra@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If you follow the source trail it lists Cloudscene as the source, who seem to be some marketplace for buying and selling cloud services. I highly suspect it’s a count of the data centers they have listed by their sellers, which would bias the US and explain why there are so few for China.

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• Yuki@kutsuya.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Could be they have way more but don’t tell us about them

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  • themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Or the have fewer but larger.

    Or as another user pointed out: The source might be questionable to use as valid data globally.

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• Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Could be fewer but larger. China likes megastructures. Could just be that their compute power is much more heavily consolidated.

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• hydroptic@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah, same, I found it a bit surprising they have fewer than Germany

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• themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They also may be much larger data centers than in other countries. This source is just a total count of individual data centers.

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