If the world had a hyperscale datacenter capital, it would be... Northern Virginia

If the internet can be said to have a geographic location, then perhaps it is Northern Virginia, which has the largest share of the hyperscale datacenter capacity within which the world's data is stored. Hyperscale companies accounted for 41 percent of the entire global bit barn presence last year, and this share is increasing …

[NoneSuch]

And all that computing power is monitoring what I type right now.

[collinsl]

There's no proof of that, in fact there's no way they can be monitoring what I'm ty

[heyrick]

Gee...

An entire article and no mention of what's in northern Virginia that might have possibly influenced this decision.

Hint: Langley, and obviously not the one in Canada.

[diodesign]

Re: Gee...

Heh, well, as we've seen (eg, Room 641A), US intelligence doesn't need a HQ to be near a facility of interest to do its thing.

But sure, we can remind people the geography of that part of America.

C.

[DS999]

Well it would have been pretty easy to guess these

You're either located near the consumers of that data (i.e. governments) or located where the electricity is cheap and plentiful (Oregon/hydro, Iowa/wind, etc.)

[Anonymous Coward]

Robert E Lee.....Not Mentioned?

Ah......The Army Of Northern Virginia.......fought on the wrong side of the war..........

.......but resurrected in 2024 with tools to f**k the rest of the world......

Robert E Lee would be proud!!!

[FrogsAndChips]

Northern Virginia is AWS us-east-1 region

which is the default AWS region, and where new services are deployed first, so it's not surprising to see that region over-represented in the figures.

[Michael 66]

Hasn't this been the case on and off since AOL? :)

[I miss PL/1]

Actually it's been the case since MCI and later Verizon headquartered there.

[Buzzword]

Why is Dublin #3 ?

Ireland has the most expensive electricity in Europe. Seems like an odd place to build data centres whose biggest cost is energy, or am I missing something?