Famous data centers of the world: the open dataset
100 famous data center sites and 25 estates, each record with coordinates, operator, opening year, power, PUE, cooling, a short story, notable facts and at least two public sources. Free to use under CC BY 4.0 with a link to this page.
Downloads
- dc-world.geojson: every site as a GeoJSON point with its properties
- dc-world.csv: the same sites as a flat table
- Estate workbooks (DC Sim template v1.4, Sites and Links sheets): 2africa, akamai-edge-backbone, alibaba-cloud-backbone, aws-global-backbone, bifrost-cable, china-east-west-computing, cloudflare-global-network, curie, de-cix-globe-peer, equiano, equinix-fabric, us-doe-esnet, eurohpc-geant-network, fidelity-dr-pair, dunant, google-cloud-backbone, grace-hopper, huawei-cloud-backbone, london-frankfurt-financial, marea, microsoft-azure-backbone, oracle-cloud-backbone, peace-cable, sea-me-we-6, spread-networks-chicago-nj
What a site record holds
id, name, operator, owner, tenant_type (hyperscale, colocation, AI, HPC, research, enterprise), city, country, region, lat, lon with the coordinate source, year_opened, status, expansions, site_area_m2, building_area_m2, it_mw, total_mw, pue (value and whether reported or estimated), cooling, power, certifications, famous_for, notable, story, image (only CC-licensed, with author and licence), sources (URL, title, publisher, date), confidence and the list of fields that are estimated.
What an estate record holds
The estate's name, operator, kind and year, its sites (code, place, coordinates, role, provider) and links (type, capacity, length, year, protected or not, carrier, sources), plus a story and notable facts.
How it is made
Every record is compiled from public sources (operators' own pages, filings, press, Wikidata, OpenStreetMap for coordinates) and checked before publication. Values the sources do not state directly are marked estimated. Latencies and what-ifs shown on the earth are our estimates from public numbers, not the operators' routing. Base map: Natural Earth (public domain); city list for "where's my data center": GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).
Corrections
Found a wrong number or a better source? Write to da@mustardseedmt.com with the record id and the source; corrections are dated in the record's updated field. Last sync: 2026-10-15.