Data center info request 🤖

[wobniarin]

New feature in Electricity Maps

Electricity Maps is creating a new layer to visualize all data centers around the world 🚀 🚀

We want to keep the list updated, and we need your help! Right now we added some data centers and compute regions for Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google cloud Computing.

We are collecting the information in this configuration data_centers.json

The structure to follow is this one:

  "gcp-europe-west1": {
    "provider": "gcp",
    "lonlat": [3.8580813, 50.4663049],
    "displayName": "St Ghislain (europe-west1)",
    "region": "europe-west1",
    "zoneKey": "BE",
    "status": "operational",
    "source": "",
    "operationalSince": null
  },

{
  "<provider>-us-central1": {
    "provider": "gcp",
    "lonlat": [-95.8028031, 41.1755951],
    "displayName": "Southlands Campus (us-central1)",
    "region": "us-central1",
    "zoneKey": "US-CENT-SWPP",
    "status": "operational",
    "source": "",
    "operationalSince": null
  },

How can you contribute

To be more specific, we would like to know:

• Are there any other providers you know their compute regions and you know the location of the data centers used?
• Do you have additional information on the already available data centers and compute regions? Such as operationalSince?

[t-couery]

I've added the OHV Cloud data centres. OVH is the largest hosting provider in Europe.

You can also add global list on internet like : https://www.datacenters.com/locations => 6208 data centers

[VIKTORVAV99]

I've added the OHV Cloud data centres. OVH is the largest hosting provider in Europe.

You can also add global list on internet like : https://www.datacenters.com/locations => 6208 data centers

I'll take a look at the PR later today but it should be fairly straightforward. Thanks a lot!

[CWallenberg]

Hello
I've added operational since data for all AWS regions listed in the data_centers.json file.

[julian-st]

I just checked the coordinates for the entry "azure-westeurope": {
"provider": "azure",
"lonlat": [7.0480821, 52.5001698],
"displayName": "West Europe",
"region": "westeurope",
"zoneKey": "DE",
"status": "operational",
"source": "https://datacenters.microsoft.com/",
"operationalSince": "2010"
} If I understand this correctly this should be here https://www.google.com/maps/place/52%C2%B030'00.6%22N+7%C2%B002'53.1%22E/@52.5001699,6.8832884,11z/data=!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d52.5001667!4d7.0480833 but there are just fields and no data centre. I think the region is also not correct for this entry. On the page there is an image for the Netherlands, maybe Amsterdam (for a data center that is operational since 2010). So the zoneKey should be NL

I put my changes in #8286