"Data Center Map"

This commercial website offers very technical info about data center markets, but it's still interesting to see the geographical location of the centers listed there.
e.g. the weight of the USA, and the state of Virginia within it...
www.datacentermap.com/datacenters/

"Infrastructure Connectivity Map"

Similar to the first, This ITU map also shows on land transmission networks, both planned and under construction as well. Its layers additionally compare the networks with population density.
bbmaps.itu.int/bbmaps/

"Internet Infrastructure Map" (2025)

@kmcd.dev's map not only gives us an interactive tour of undersea cables and global internet peering capacity, it does that OVER TIME since 1858 !
map.kmcd.dev?year=2025

💰 "A few states have computed their returns on taxpayer investments: they have determined that they lose between 52 and 70 cents for every dollar they spend on data center sales tax exemptions."
Good Jobs First's new study on the transparency of data-centers and states' subsidies.
urlr.me/nBWaDX

⚡ "The core issue is that utility rates are just not designed to deal [with] or account for rapid cost increases to serve a small number of really big customers", says Chief Analyst (JLARC) Mark Gribbin in Virginia.
See J.Elkins, S.Lackmeyer for "The Oklahoman"
eu.usatoday.com/story/busine...

Can the EU successfully regulate and adopt a technology whose innovations and supply chains are currently under the control and monopoly of others ?