An index, not a directory.
DataCenterIndex is the structured, versioned graph of the world's data center infrastructure — and its history.
What it is
Facilities, campuses, operators, cloud regions, metros, countries, projects, internet exchanges, power and connectivity, linked into one graph. Every field — a capacity in MW, an opening date, a coordinate, a status — carries its provenance: the source, the URL, when it was first and last observed, how it was extracted, and a confidence level. When a source changes, the change is detected, versioned and published to the live feed.
We never invent data. Totals are lower bounds computed from known figures only; estimates are flagged ≈; city-level coordinates are labelled as such and drawn as hollow rings on the map.
How it is built
A homemade connector platform follows a fixed pipeline: discover → fetch → archive → extract → normalize → reconcile → validate → version → detect changes → publish. Crawling is polite and legal: robots.txt is respected, hosts are rate-limited, unchanged pages are never refetched, no paywall or CAPTCHA is bypassed. Entity resolution merges records across sources only above a strict similarity threshold; ambiguous matches are reviewed by a human.
Read the methodology for confidence scoring, ranking rules and coverage caveats, or browse the source registry.
Data attribution and licences
- PeeringDBFacilities, internet exchanges, networks and their presence.PeeringDB data licence (CC0-like, attribution requested)
- OpenStreetMapBuilding footprints, addresses and coordinates for geocoding.© OpenStreetMap contributors — ODbL 1.0
- WikidataOperator identities, aliases, parent companies, external identifiers.CC0 1.0
- World BankCountry population, GDP and electricity indicators.CC BY 4.0
- Operator and government sourcesFacility pages, press releases, planning filings, utility and regulator publications.Facts only; each value links to its source page and licence recorded per source.
Map tiles: OpenFreeMap · © OpenMapTiles · © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Who makes it
Built and maintained by Simon-Pierre Boucher. Questions, corrections, data partnerships or API access: contact@spboucher.ai.
Hosted on MacLustr (www.maclustr.io), a distributed Apple-silicon compute cluster, with dedicated servers for the data and crawl tiers.
Public API: /api/v1/docs — same envelope, same provenance as the site.