Big Tech's Data Centers
With the increasing amount of data sets needed to train AI, the number of data centers is expected to rise. Many tech giants are investing in Malaysia to build data centers, including partnerships like the one between Nvidia and $YTLPOWR / 6742 (YTL POWER INTERNATIONAL BHD) and Microsoft's acquisition of land from $CRESNDO / 6718 (CRESCENDO CORPORATION BERHAD) for data center. But do you know how many data centers these tech giants actually own? Visual Capitalist has provided some insights.
Microsoft operates the most data centers, with about 300, followed by Amazon with 215. Despite owning fewer data centers, AWS holds the highest market share in cloud computing. Google, Meta, and Apple operate significantly fewer data centers.
Among Chinese tech giants, Alibaba Cloud operates around 89 data centers. The exact number of data centers owned by Huawei and Tencent, the second and third largest cloud computing companies in China, remains unclear.