About our Data
Please find an overview of frequently asked questions about our data below.How many listings do you have?
See the table below, for insight in to how many listings our database holds, as well as coverage of select data points.Click the button to change the geographic scope of the statistics, from global to one or more countries/states.
| Data Point | Listings |
|---|---|
| Total listings | 11,698 |
| - with Coordinates | 11,140 |
| - with Power in MW | 4,155 |
| - with Whitespace size | 3,973 |
| - with Total building size | 1,943 |
| - with PUE | 778 |
| - with Year operational | 2,351 |
| - with Tier design | 2,585 |
| A total of 11,698 listings from 3,249 operators, based on the geographic filtering below: | |
For such a location the campus or multi-tenant building will count as one listing, and each data center on site for another listing.
Data centers will refer to campus/building listings as parent listings, via a reference to their unique ID.
How is your data sourced?
Our data originates from multiple sources, primarily:- Operators: Data center operators and service providers use Data Center Map as a marketing tool, to promote their data centers, networks and services to potential clients. They have direct access to add and update listings.
- External sources: We monitor multiple external databases, to identify missing or changed listings. They are automatically queued for manual review.
- Manual sourcing: We manually identify operators that we are missing and manually add them to our database.
- End-users: End-users send us tips and requests, about missing or outdated listings, that we manually handle.
How complete is your data?
As there are no regulatory requirements to register data centers in a central database, there are no complete resources available. All databases are based on voluntary data submissions and/or collecting data from providers or other sources.With our database dating back to 2007, we have one of the oldest and most comprehensive databases in the industry. Covering thousands of records on a global basis in this constantly changing industry, it is of course by no means 100% complete.
The database will always have missing listings as well as incorrect, incomplete or outdated listings. Most frequent reason for outdated listings is M&A.
How often is your data updated?
Our data is updated on a daily basis, by providers updating their listings, us updating listings as well as our systems automatically collecting data from external databases and systems. There will always be outdated or incorrect records in the dataset, despite our best efforts to keep the data up to date.What kind of data centers do you cover?
We primarily track data centers from operators offering colocation or cloud services, but also select crypto miners and hyperscale operators (incl. Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta and Apple).We currently do not cover enterprise data centers or government data centers.
How is your data structured?
Data center operators describe and market their assets in different ways. For example, one operator may market a campus with four buildings as a single data center, while another may market each building as a separate data center. To make comparisons possible across these different approaches, we normalize all data using a consistent and flexible structure.Listing Types
Our database is organized into the following listing types, with some of them having the ability to have other listings as parent or child listings. Such relationships are easily identifiable through the parent_id in our exports:
- Land:
Land-banked locations where no concrete data center construction plans are yet known.
Land listings can not have parent or child listings. - Campus:
A parent listing representing a group of data center buildings clustered on the same site.
Campus listings can not have parent listings, but may have one or more Facility listings as children. - Multi-Tenant Building:
A parent listing representing a single building that hosts multiple, independently operated data centers.
Multi-Tenant Building listings can not have parent listings, but may have one or more Facility listings as children. - Facility:
An individual physical data center that meets our listing requirements. A facility may occupy an entire building or one or more rooms within a building.
Facility listings can have a Campus or Multi-Tenant Building listings as parents.
In some edge cases a Facility may be parent/child of a Facility, for example where a wholesale data center operator is leasing out part of their facility to a colocation provider.
Counting Methodology
To ensure transparency and consistency, we adopted the following counting methodology by end of year 2025:
- Unique Locations: This metric represents the number of distinct physical sites, counting all listing types without a parent listing.
- Unique Facilities: This metric represents the number of individual data center facilities. We count all Facility listings that have no parent or have a Campus or Multi-Tenant Building as parent. In cases where a Campus is known but the exact number of buildings is unclear, we count the Campus as one Facility.
Does your database include data centers under development?
Yes, we track data centers in the following stages of their lifecycle:- Land Banked
- Planned
- Under Construction
- Operational