It's been a while. People forget the Internet was born and grew up in the U.S. It was globalized in the 90s.
Also I wonder the average size/revenue of each data center is. I thought China would be #2 all theirs must be big.
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I suspect they don't have all the information about what china and russia are doing in this regard.
I heard the internet was created for universities to share research. Which soon became "research" of naked people having sex videos and pictures.
Square footage of data centers would be more interesting
There is definitely going to be a better metric than pure numbers of centres, but I doubt floor area is it. Something to do with actual useful capacity.
Data capacity alongside total centers would be interesting. Like how many bytes.
I wonder how many of those are used for things like tracking and ai...
This says South Korea has 147;
According to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, the number of data centers in South Korea is forecast to more than quadruple to 637 by 2029 from 147 in 2025.