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Wikileaks leaked them in 2018, so the majority are known, I think. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/wikileaks-publishes-list-aws-data-center-locations

Wikileaks leaked them in 2018, so the majority are known, I think. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/wikileaks-publishes-list-aws-data-center-locations-colo-providers/ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/wikileaks-publish...

Hamuko 6y ago
For what purpose?
- jordigh 6y ago
  I can think of one valid purpose: GHG emissions. Amazon, unlike say, Google, does not disclose their carbon emissions. Like at all. It is important to have this information public, for the sake of our planet. Amazon gets an F for disclosure, while Google is getting some A's: https://www.cdp.net/en/responses/658?queries%255Bname%255D%3Damazon&queries[name]=amazon https://www.cdp.net/en/responses/658?queries%255Bname%255D%3... https://www.cdp.net/en/responses?utf8=%E2%9C%93&queries%5Bname%5D=alphabet https://www.cdp.net/en/responses?utf8=%E2%9C%93&queries%5Bna... I assume the reason is that doing a GHG assessment gives a lot of information about the operations of your company, so Amazon would rather be secretive about its operations. Knowing the location of datacentres allows you to deduce what power grid they're attached to. Scope 2 emissions depend a lot on where the electricity is coming from, and they're likely the vast majority of Amazon's emissions due to the size of AWS. Their Scope 3 emissions due to deliveries might also be significant, but it's harder to be secretive about that.
  - consumer451 6y ago
    > I can think of one valid purpose: GHG emissions. I can think of another purpose which is valid to some people: sowing chaos.
    - TeMPOraL 6y ago
      I don't think potential chaos sowers would have much difficulty finding the data centers themselves. All they'd need to do is to narrow the location to a town or several towns, go there, and start asking pizza delivery people for directions.
- unixhero 6y ago
  I'm sorry what?

Hamuko 6y ago

For what purpose?

jordigh 6y ago
I can think of one valid purpose: GHG emissions. Amazon, unlike say, Google, does not disclose their carbon emissions. Like at all. It is important to have this information public, for the sake of our planet. Amazon gets an F for disclosure, while Google is getting some A's: https://www.cdp.net/en/responses/658?queries%255Bname%255D%3Damazon&queries[name]=amazon https://www.cdp.net/en/responses/658?queries%255Bname%255D%3... https://www.cdp.net/en/responses?utf8=%E2%9C%93&queries%5Bname%5D=alphabet https://www.cdp.net/en/responses?utf8=%E2%9C%93&queries%5Bna... I assume the reason is that doing a GHG assessment gives a lot of information about the operations of your company, so Amazon would rather be secretive about its operations. Knowing the location of datacentres allows you to deduce what power grid they're attached to. Scope 2 emissions depend a lot on where the electricity is coming from, and they're likely the vast majority of Amazon's emissions due to the size of AWS. Their Scope 3 emissions due to deliveries might also be significant, but it's harder to be secretive about that.
- consumer451 6y ago
  > I can think of one valid purpose: GHG emissions. I can think of another purpose which is valid to some people: sowing chaos.
  - TeMPOraL 6y ago
    I don't think potential chaos sowers would have much difficulty finding the data centers themselves. All they'd need to do is to narrow the location to a town or several towns, go there, and start asking pizza delivery people for directions.
unixhero 6y ago
I'm sorry what?