> What doe the electricity cost of some regions of the US have to do with the costs where data centers actually are like New York? I'd expect electricity to be

> What doe the electricity cost of some regions of the US have to do with the costs where data centers actually are like New York? I'd expect electricity to be a major cost item for data centers. GDP per capita is not a good proxy for the cost of running a data center. It is only loosely related to labour costs and not at all to cost of infrastructure projects and regulation. So I still don't completely understand why US data centers are more expensive, esp at locations like Kansas or Oregon where energy is cheaper than in most/all of Europe.