How many datacenters are there in North America? Europe? World? Does anyone have those numbers/statistics?

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I think listing the datacenters would assist us in developing a list of the wide known ones. Off the top of my head theres;

Equinix
EV1
GNAX
The Planet
NAC
INTERSERVER
Server Central
INTERNAP

Their has to be thousands I would think. I mean places like AT&T have dozens as do many other companies, not to mention smaller datacenters. I don't know the exact number, not sure if their would even be a list.

A list of datacenters would seem highly impractical, because as Greg said, there really are thousands, but this brings you back to the topic of "What Defines a Datacenter?" Such statistics are probably hard to come by as smaller datacenters would need to gain recognition to make it to the list, if it existed (which it might, but I personally doubt)

Yes, I agree that listing the datacenters is impractical, however doing so would provide us with an overview of atleast the large ones out there.

Largest datacenters in Amsterdam, Netherlands:

Global Switch
InterXion 1/2 /4
InterXion 3
Nikhef
NovaXess
Redbus
Sara
Schuberg Philis
Telecity 1
Telecity 2

you missed out Easynet

That is/was NovaXess.

i dont think there is any datacenter directory out there for us to look at.

http://www.datacentres.org

That list is far from complete, but it looks like its open for the public to edit.

Nice to see a change from the overflow of webhosting directories.

more than enough

To many to track, same with webhosting companies, they predict numbers but they really dont know, like thay say these people control 1% of the market, hmm maybe but we own 7 brands that arent even picked up for stats and we are bigger then the company that has 1% of the market, so the stats we get offline are so heresay these days

I cannot find any in Chicago and I know there are many