[efnx]

It’s interesting how many more community reported data centres there are compared to operational and proposed. I’m wondering if this is because of over reporting? Like - does the public mistake any new, big building as a data centre, or are the other categories under reported (or something else)?

[doodlebugging]

I was asking myself the same question about whether there is duplication in the site locations. I believe that there is based on looking at my own area. I see several reports from nearby zip codes but none of them locate the proposed data center at the correct site even though I figured out where it was supposed to end up by doing a minimal level of study of the area. I didn't see a link to the articles that a couple of the site locations referenced so it isn't possible to determine whether three people saw and reported the same article without providing a link or whether there is are fact three different data center locations proposed or in the works.

I believe clusters of dots with no reference links probably are duplicates in many cases. The ones that are ground-truth are the ones where site names and owners are listed or where a supporting article is linked.

[stock_toaster]

Seems under-reported to me (as far as PDX goes).

For reference: https://www.datacenterjournal.com/data-centers/oregon/portla...

[altairprime]

Are privately-held datacenters counted? Like, prssumably chipmakers have a few of their own in their home regions..?

[jagged-chisel]

“Privately-held”? I don’t think governments are building them.

[cheschire]

The US government has a lot.

Just one random Google result:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

[altairprime]

As opposed to “government”, though I suppose also as opposed to “DaaS” businesses.

[DANmode]

Companies that aren’t publicly traded, is another way to say that.