47%
US share of the 11,614 data centres Cloudscene tracks across 97 countries in 2025
What the chart shows
Cloudscene’s directory lists 11,614 data centres across 97 countries in 2025. The United States has 5,427 of them, 47% of the total and more than ten times any other country.
Most countries have very few: 79 of the 97 have fewer than 100 data centres, and 38 have fewer than 10. Hover over a country to see its count.
Key numbers
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| United States | 5,427 |
| Germany | 529 |
| United Kingdom | 523 |
| China | 449 |
| All 97 countries | 11,614 |
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.
- Countries in light grey have no data. No African country appears in Cloudscene’s 2025 data, which more likely reflects gaps in its directory than an absence of data centres.
- Gibraltar (2 data centres) is too small to draw at this map scale; it is listed in the data table.
- Map outlines: Natural Earth (public domain).
Source: Cloudscene, 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 1.3.1: Global distribution of data centers, 2025. Chart and text by AI Adoption.
Numbers checked against the published data on 19 October 2026.
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Numbers checked against the published data on 19 October 2026.
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