Most data centers for cloud services are located in the United States.

Currently, most of the large data centers that serve cloud services are located in the United States.

The largest data center is Lakeside Technology Center, located in Chicago, with an area of ​​102 square meters. In second place is Metro Data Center (Atlanta) with 92 square meters, and in third place is NAP of Americans (Miami) with 70 square meters.

Data centers consume 1.3% of all global energy consumption. In the United States, this share is 2%. There are approximately 500,000 data centers worldwide. Google's data centers alone, with over 1 million servers, consume 260 megawatts of electricity. This is equivalent to the energy consumption of 200,000 apartment buildings.

Facebook's first data center in Europe, in Luleå, Sweden, is expected to be completed by 2014. Situated on the Arctic Circle, it benefits from natural cooling.

Google has a data center in Finland that uses water from the Baltic Sea for cooling, thus reducing energy consumption.

Microsoft's largest data center outside the US is located in Dublin, Ireland. It uses ambient air for cooling, which is more environmentally friendly than artificial cooling.

Recently, many companies have begun to build data centers in the East, especially in economically developed regions such as Hong Kong and Singapore.