Number of Data Centers by Country (2026)

There are 11,818 listed data centers across 179 countries and territories worldwide in 2026.

The United States leads with 4,455 data centers — 37.7% of the global total. The top 10 countries account for 65% of all data centers, while 77 countries have 5 or fewer.

Below is the full country-by-country breakdown, followed by the leading markets and a regional split.

Key Data Center Statistics

• The world has 11,818 listed data centers across 179 countries and territories.
• The United States has 4,455 data centers — 8x as many as the #2 country (United Kingdom, 560).
• 10 countries account for 65% of all listed data centers worldwide.
• 77 countries have 5 or fewer data centers, and 27 have exactly one.

Number of Data Centers by Country: Full List (179 Countries & Territories)

The table below lists every country in the dataset, ranked by number of data centers.

The top 10 countries account for 65% of all data centers. The remaining 169 countries share 35%.

At the other end: 77 countries — 43% of the list — have 5 or fewer data centers. 27 countries have exactly 1.

Top 12 Countries by Data Center Count

The twelve largest markets and their share of the global total:

Rank	Country	Data Centers	% of World
1	United States	4,455	37.7%
2	United Kingdom	560	4.7%
3	Germany	527	4.5%
4	France	393	3.3%
5	China	369	3.1%
6	India	296	2.5%
7	Canada	288	2.4%
8	Australia	285	2.4%
9	Japan	259	2.2%
10	Italy	256	2.2%
11	Brazil	215	1.8%
12	Spain	212	1.8%

The gap between first and second place is the defining feature of this ranking. The United States alone accounts for 37.7% of listed data centers — more than the next eleven countries combined, which together reach 31.0%.

Below the top spot the distribution flattens quickly. Positions 2 through 12 all fall between 1.8% and 4.7%, a range narrow enough that a few dozen facilities separate several of them.

Ten of the twelve sit in Europe & Central Asia, North America, or East Asia & Pacific. India and Brazil are the only entries from South Asia and Latin America, and no African country appears in the top 12 — the continent’s largest market, South Africa, ranks 32nd with 64.

Data Centers by Region

Grouping the 179 entries into World Bank regions shows how unevenly the total is distributed.

Region	Data Centers	% of World
North America	4,745	40.2%
Europe & Central Asia	3,827	32.4%
East Asia & Pacific	1,770	15.0%
Latin America & Caribbean	560	4.7%
Middle East & North Africa	350	3.0%
South Asia	335	2.8%
Sub-Saharan Africa	231	2.0%

Two regions hold nearly three-quarters of the world’s listed data centers: North America (40.2%) and Europe & Central Asia (32.4%) together account for 72.5%.

The four smallest regions — Latin America & Caribbean, the Middle East & North Africa, South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa — add up to 12.5% combined, less than one-third of North America’s total on its own.

One comparison shows the spread at country level: the 39 countries of Sub-Saharan Africa have a combined 231 listed data centers. Italy alone has 256.

Methodology

Source: 11,818 data centers listed on datacentermap.com (2026), across 179 countries and territories named as they appear in the directory.

Region column: each country is tagged with its region using the World Bank country classification, so readers can group the list by part of the world.