Why is Ashburn the data center capital of the world?

We operate nearly 900 servers, and I believe the capital of cloud infrastructure is Amsterdam, NL. The concentration of ASNs in Amsterdam is incredible. In contrast, Ashburn, Dallas, and LA seem to lack ASN diversity, primarily being dominated by singular big tech companies. Cities like Amsterdam, Singapore, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, Istanbul, and New York, however, have a greater concentration of smaller cloud hosting businesses, offering more diversity.

The real answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAE-East

The article states it is from 2019. So not sure if things have changed.

I'm surprised how many data centers there are in Hillsboro, Oregon. And they have more under construction at the moment. I wonder where Hillsboro ranks?

MAE East is there.

If you wanted good interconnect to the west coast and the rest of the world, you needed to be in or near MAE East.

Convenient to CIA HQ and "Liberty Crossing"?

> [...] surpass 1 gigawatt of overall data center capacity.

> [...] with only about half the capacity, at 559 megawatts (MWs) of inventory.

I didn't know that the physical unit for the rate of energy transfer, or more simple just power, is also an unit for computing power. After all it's the same word, right?

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