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Amazon and Microsoft are the Data Center Czars 🤖
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What We’re Showing
A chart showing major tech companies and the number of their data centers. Third-party estimates have been used for Apple and AWS.
What is a Data Center?
A facility housing computer systems and components for data processing, storage, and communication. They are critical for modern business operations and digital services, including cloud computing, e-commerce, social media, and big data analytics.
Key Takeaways
- Cloud computing giants—Microsoft and Amazon—have data centers in the triple-digits to accommodate their customers' burgeoning business demands. However, there’s no one standard of how big a data center needs to be, so quantity doesn’t automatically translate into greater capacity.
- According to Statista, AWS still maintains the biggest market share in the cloud computing segment (31%) even as Microsoft Azure edges ever closer (25%).
- Unlike the digital world where Big Tech dominates, there are a number of players in the data center space. One example is Digital Realty, which would rank alongside Microsoft with 300+ data centers.
Dataset
Company | Data Centers |
---|---|
Microsoft | 300 |
AWS* | 215 |
25 | |
Meta | 24 |
Apple* | 10 |
*Third-party estimates |
Data sources
*Third-party estimates. As of May, 2024.
https://datacenters.microsoft.com/https://www.google.ca/about/datacenters/locations/https://datacenters.atmeta.com/https://dgtlinfra.com/apple-data-center-locations/https://baxtel.com/data-centers/amazon-awshttps://www.datacenters.com/apple-inc-data-center-locationshttps://www.statista.com/chart/18819/worldwide-market-share-of-leading-cloud-infrastructure-service-providers/
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