Where the Internet Actually Is

the buildings networks physically meet in

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"The cloud" is a marketing word. The internet is buildings — a few thousand of them, where separate companies' networks physically plug into each other.

Every dot on this globe is one of those buildings — a real street address. The bigger and brighter it is, the more networks have equipment inside. Zoom right in and click one to see the companies in it.

The surprise: a hundred buildings carry about a third of all the world's interconnection, and the busiest single one is in Jakarta — not Virginia.

At a glance (PeeringDB)

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