The U.S. has the most data centres in the world, the country has 2701 in total.
The top 15 countries with the most data centers are the United States (2,701), Germany (487), the U.K. (456), China (443), and Canada (328), Australia (287), Netherlands (281), France (265), Japan (207), Russia (172), Mexico (153), Brazil (150), India (138), Poland (136), and Italy (131). (Techjury)
The Asia & Pacific region is home to the most cloud data centers (95). The United States and Canada region is not far behind (79). Together these regions account for 72 percent of the world's cloud data centers, with Europe housing 24 percent and Latin America just 4 percent.
Mumbai. Mumbai holds the largest data centre market with a 44% alone. The total capacity is 289 MW, with having 3.6 million sq ft in its functional area. Big data centre giants like Sify, STT, CtrlS, Nxtra Data, Web Werks, NTT etc.
The world's largest data centre is at Langfang, China. It is located in 6.3 million square feet of space. The world's second-largest data centre which is in Mumbai occupies 600-acres of space in Mumbai.
The Utah Data Center is a huge government facility in Bluffdale, Utah that stores personal emails, Internet searches, cell phone calls, and other public data. Part of the National Security Agency, the massive data repository is reported to have the largest data storage capacity in the world.
The Citadel located in Nevada is the largest server farm on the globe covering 7.2 million square feet.
Sitting on the campus of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, the chapel houses the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, the most beautiful data center in the world. The church was deconsecrated in the 1970s with the first MareNostrum system installed in 2004 with a calculation capacity of 42.35 teraflops/second.
The 12U micro data center is described as the world's smallest, and does beat out the 23U Schneider SmartBunker and the Rittal 15-usable U 'The System'.
The Top 3 operators in the Australia Data Center Market AirTrunk, NextDC and CDC Data Centres contribute to more than 50% of the existing IT Load Capacity in the market. In the Australia Data Center Market, Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra contribute to more than 80% of the raised floor area.
Data centers have their roots in the huge computer rooms of the 1940s, typified by ENIAC, one of the earliest examples of a data center.
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Northern Virginia remains the world's data center capital — here's how it got there. Real estate firm JLL's annual data center report is out, and Northern Virginia remained the largest data center market in North America last year, with record growth.
The largest data center in the world in 2023 is the China Telecom Data Center that spreads over a massive area of over 10 million square feet. Located in Beijing-Tianjin economic circle radiation belt, China Telecom has a large global network of over 400 data centers.
Thirty-four miles from Washington D.C. lies Ashburn, a city in Virginia's Loudon County. It may sound like just another regular city, but it's impressively known as the Data Center Capital of the World.
In total, the 10 largest providers and operators of data centers, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Meta Platforms, Equinix, Digital Realty, NTT Global Data Centers, CyrusOne, GDS Holdings, and KDDI's Telehouse, operate over 1,250 facilities around the world.
The companies collecting your location and contact info
While you may think of tech behemoths like Meta and Google as the biggest offenders, the top data-collecting culprits are actually Snapchat and Apple. In this race to the bottom, other top data dealers include Instagram, DoorDash, and Depop.
Some argue that it has been around since the early 1990s, crediting American computer scientist John R Mashey, considered the 'father of big data', for making it popular. Others believe it was a term coined in 2005 by Roger Mougalas and the O'Reilly Media group.
The National Broadband Network (NBN) is an Australian national wholesale open-access data network. It includes wired and radio communication components rolled out and operated by NBN Co, a Government-owned corporation.
Australia's data sovereignty law requires that data be kept in a data centre located in Australia (data residency), and be only accessible by Australians at all times. In Australia, data held on Australian soil is subject to and protected by our Australian Privacy Principles (APPs).