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# The US has 5,427 data centres, more than ten times Germany, the next largest
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/data-centers-by-country/
- Published: 2026-10-19T14:40:51.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:01:26.000Z
- Description: With 5,427 data centres, the US has more than ten times as many as Germany (529), the UK (523) or China (449).
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Infrastructure, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-infrastructure

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US data centres (5,427) relative to Germany (529), the country with the next most

United States5,427

Germany529

United Kingdom523

## What the chart shows

The United States has 5,427 data centres, more than ten times the next country, Germany, with 529\. The United Kingdom (523), China (449) and Canada (337) follow.

The top five countries hold 63% of all the data centres Cloudscene tracks.

## Key numbers

| Measure        | Value |
| -------------- | ----- |
| United States  | 5,427 |
| Germany        | 529   |
| United Kingdom | 523   |
| China          | 449   |
| Canada         | 337   |

## How to read it

- Counts facilities listed by Cloudscene. They do not reflect a facility’s size, computing capacity or how much of it is used for AI, so a country with fewer but larger sites can have more capacity.
- Top 15 countries shown; see the world map for all 97.

**Source:** [Cloudscene](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#cloudscene), 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 1.3.2: *Number of data centers by geographic area, 2025*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 19 October 2026.  
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