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Which Countries Have The Most Data Centers?
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this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2024
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I'm shocked the UK is as high as it is. Land costs a huge amount here, as does energy (highest in Europe).
Then again, the UK has an unusually large services sector after Thatcher basically decided to kill the manufacturing sector, and the UK is probably the IT leader in Europe, so I guess it has that going for it.
China being so ridiculously low has me questioning the data though...
The UK's average energy price is high, but it's also very variable as when it's cloudy and calm 20% of demand needs to be imported from France/Norway so wholesale energy is very expensive, but when it's sunny and windy wholesale energy is free or even at negative cost and 20% of generation gets exported to France/Norway, where their energy is more expensive
If you have the option to run datacentres at minimal or even negative energy cost maybe 20% of the time, then shift load elsewhere the rest of the time, then that may be a reasonable proposition