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Which Countries Have The Most Data Centers?
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this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2024
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Personally I think it'd be interesting to see this per capita, so here's my back of a napkin math for data centers per 1 million pop (c. 2022):
Worth noting of course that this only lists the quantity of discrete data centers and says nothing about the capacity of those data centers. I think it'd be really interesting to break down total compute power and total storage by country and by population.
I'd also be interested to know what qualifies as a "data center"? For example, are ASIC based crypto mining operations counted, even though their machinery cannot be repurposed to any other function? That would certainly account for a chunk of the the US (almost all of it in Texas).
https://www.top500.org/statistics/sublist/
OK, interesting. I'm a little unclear on how they're calculating rMax and rPeak though?
I'm gonna speculate, but I don't think these systems can run all cpu cores on turbo due to power and thermal limitations and because that wouldn't be good cost/processing power wise (since you need excessive cooling to do that). Rather, they fire turbo on groups of CPUs, allowing the CPUs to cool down till the sequence wraps around
So, I think rPeak is the processing power achieved when the computer is turboing a large chunk of CPUs
Sorry for my messy writing, I'm a little tired