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Ur mom :
It’s crypto. They’re tokenizing the market. They’re tokenizing WATER. It’s crypto people!
2026-06-22 14:00:19
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teamoney :
They are NOT data centers
2026-06-22 16:34:48
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Michelle Schry :
Water rights
2026-06-23 11:36:25
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Iacchus :
One thing I'd point out about this number is that the U.S. does not have a universally accepted legal definition that says a facility must contain a specific number of servers before it can be considered a data center. That matters because when people hear "5,000+ data centers," they often picture 5,000 massive industrial facilities. In reality, the term can be applied to a wide range of operations depending on who is doing the counting. A dedicated server room, a small colocation facility, a corporate server site, or a hyperscale campus may all end up in the same dataset. For example, I have a few servers at home. Obviously, nobody would compare my setup to a Google or Amazon campus, but the lack of a strict legal threshold illustrates the problem. There is no federal rule that says a data center must have 100 servers, 1,000 servers, or occupy a certain amount of floor space. Industry groups do have their own classifications. IDC, for example, commonly defines a hyperscale data center as a facility with at least 5,000 servers and roughly 10,000 square feet of space. But that's an industry guideline, not a legal standard. So when someone cites a figure like "the U.S. has 5,000+ data centers," my question is: What exactly is being counted? How many are hyperscale facilities? How many are enterprise server rooms? How many are small colocation sites? How many are corporate IT facilities? Without a breakdown, the raw number by itself doesn't tell us much. It could represent thousands of large facilities, or it could be a mixture of large, medium, and small operations all grouped under the same label. If we're going to compare countries, we need consistent definitions and category breakdowns; otherwise, we're comparing a broad label rather than comparable infrastructure.
2026-06-22 05:41:05
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JennyBum1975 :
Allegedly 🤪 we might kinda be forked
2026-06-22 05:20:28
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Gurl Use Your Voice :
Surveillance is the bane of the game
2026-06-22 06:33:25
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grayfelon :
Maga & Israel are with Russia.
2026-06-22 15:18:57
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blueyes444 :
Data is a profit center in the US.
2026-06-22 13:06:22
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resthlyn8v5hg :
Yeah. With that amount of data centers, the US could could make a national integrated supercomputer to use it at the national scale to solve issues. But they won’t ever consider doing that
2026-06-23 00:51:39
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jordan daniels :
We sell data capabilities
2026-06-22 07:42:05
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😁 :
false sense of urgency
2026-06-22 05:29:38
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Whisperella 3.0 :
Probably not data centers…
2026-06-22 22:16:04
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swankyfrankie8 :
ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS!
2026-06-22 19:04:31
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JennKennel :
I agree
2026-06-22 14:23:19
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Tiffer 💕 :
Majority of the WORLD'S internet bandwidth/traffic travels through the state of Virginia 😭😭😭😭
2026-06-23 11:46:29
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Iacchus :
One thing people need to be careful about when discussing data center numbers is that "data center" is not a universally standardized term. In the United States, a data center can refer to anything from a relatively small dedicated server facility all the way up to a massive hyperscale campus operated by companies like Amazon, Google, or Microsoft. Depending on the source, some counts may even include facilities that are much smaller than what most people picture when they hear "data center." The problem is that different countries, organizations, and datasets don't always use the same criteria. Some count facilities, some count campuses, some count server locations, and some only count larger commercial operations. That makes direct country-to-country comparisons difficult unless everyone is using the same definition. So when someone says, "The U.S. has 5,000+ data centers," my first question is: What exactly is being counted? Are we counting every dedicated server facility, every colocation site, every hyperscale campus, every enterprise data center, or every building containing servers? Without a standardized definition, the raw number by itself doesn't tell us very much. That's not to say the U.S. doesn't have a huge amount of data center infrastructure it absolutely does. But before using those numbers to make broader arguments, we should make sure we're comparing the same thing across every country.
2026-06-22 05:36:19
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WC :
Power vs compute. Thats why
2026-06-22 16:43:25
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DadVader :
There’s no Data Center there …
2026-06-22 07:06:44
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Pete :
Ready for this....the rest of the world does not have the infrastructure or regulations to protect the systems you take for granted ever day. so much for this post.
2026-06-23 10:41:05
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Tabitha Catt Books 📚 :
China also is an intense surveillance state. The US wants global data.
2026-06-22 13:50:24
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Dog’s Best Friend :
Usually if the government wants something, I don’t trust that thing
2026-06-22 13:20:26
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LoMo :
Mass surveillance
2026-06-22 14:57:31
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ByzantineBaldEagle :
China has that few hyperscalers, and yet their LLMs are better than our. Yeah, our plutocratic oligarchs most assuredly have a different goal with all the hyperscalers, Flock cameras, etc.: 24/7 hour surveillance police state.
2026-06-22 13:37:47
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