Data centers worldwide

What the directory covers

Data Centers Intel is a directory of 8,251 data centers in 152 countries, run by 1,843 named operators. Each listing is one facility record with its location, operator, facility type and any capacity figures the operator publishes, with links to the sources it was built from.

Records come from the facility lists that 47 operators publish on their own websites, from OpenStreetMap, Overture Maps and Wikidata, from the Uptime Institute certification list, from cloud providers' location pages and from the Texas Comptroller's register of data centers. Listings from different sources that describe the same facility are combined into one record, and every facility page names the sources behind it.

Each record has a level and a type. By level, 7,073 records are single buildings, 646 are campuses of several buildings, 354 are market or metro areas such as cloud regions, and 178 give only a city. By type, 3,219 are colocation facilities that rent space to other companies, 559 belong to large cloud providers, 156 are cloud regions, 1,314 are enterprise facilities that organizations run for their own use, and 3,003 are not yet classified.

Records with little information, such as an unnamed point on a map with no operator or address, are kept in the data but are not given a page of their own until more is known about them.