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Key Takeaways

• November 2025 data reveals America’s leadership in digital infrastructure, accounting for roughly 38% of the world’s data centers.
• Europe is also a major force, with nearly 3,500 data centers across the region.

Data centers are the backbone of the digital economy, storing, managing, and processing the world’s data.

In this graphic, we visualize the countries with the most data centers as of November 2025, revealing where the world’s digital infrastructure is concentrated.

Data & Discussion

The data for this graphic was accessed via Statista. We visualized it with a sunburst chart, which shows the top countries within each region.

America: The Epicenter of Global Data

The U.S. leads the world with 4,165 data centers, accounting for nearly 38% of all facilities worldwide. This is due to the country’s robust tech sector, with major players like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft operating extensive cloud infrastructure.

Companies like OpenAI are also driving an historic build-out of digital infrastructure to power AI workloads, with spending commitments of $1.4 trillion between now and 2035. Whether or not this level of spending is sustainable remains to be seen.

Europe’s Data Center Network

Europe hosts nearly 3,500 data centers, with the largest numbers seen in the UK (499), Germany (487), and France (321).

The EU’s regulatory emphasis on privacy, through the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), has also spurred the growth of local facilities, especially in Northern and Western Europe.

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