• Dave@lemmy.nz
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      2 months 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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        2 months 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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      Could be fewer but larger. China likes megastructures. Could just be that their compute power is much more heavily consolidated.

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