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[–] terraborra@lemmy.nz 11 points 1 week ago (5 children)
[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 29 points 1 week 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.

[–] Yuki@kutsuya.dev 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago

Or the have fewer but larger.

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

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

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

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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