A true depection of the Internet use and penetration. This one picture could represent the advacement and use of technology as well. So many fitting interpretations can come out of this...One more - the density of those centres in different zones gives an idea of the pace or access to products and services.
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Really great infographic, created by Julie Peasley, showing the top 50 datacenter markets and the power they consume You can find more of Julie’s work on her website: https://lnkd.in/emFKCfRN Unlike commercial or residential real estate which is measured in square footage, data center space is measured in megawatts (MW). The amount of available power is directly correlated to the number of servers that can be housed within a facility. Two data centers with the same square footage can pack in drastically different amounts of equipment. Measuring by power consumption reflects the actual density and capacity utilization of the data center. The gold rush is underway for land suitable for datacenter development with Northern VA currently leading the charge. 2,552MW is a lot of power - it’s equivalent to what the entirety of Los Angeles consumes on a summer day. The ability to generate and transport that much power is challenging which is why other markets closer to power generation sources are popping up. With the boom of AI, whose processors require ~4x more power than those in a traditional datacenter, we can expect this map to look significantly different over the next 10 years with cloud providers and colos racing to bring new markets online while also scaling existing. #datacenters #powerconsumption #cloudcomputing #ai #digitaltransformation #energyefficiency #sustainability #datacentermarket #northernva #goldrush #scalability #cloudwars