ungazumped

Do any Cats have an insight into this new $1.3b “Green Zero Carbon” boondoggle?

“In the 2023–24 Budget, the Australian Government allocated $1.3 billion to establish the Household Energy Upgrades Fund. The Clean Energy Finance Corporation will have $1 billion to partner with banks and other lenders to offer low-cost finance and mortgages for energy performance upgrades to more than 110,000 homes”

I’ve read the internal documents and powerpoint presentations of one of the major 4 banks, so I’m familiar with how the financing side of this works. I can wrap my head around it. You could basically wipe every Chinaman’s arse for the next 10 years with the paperwork required. It’s actually more efficient to just give the customer a normal loan, rather than a subsidised “low interest” loan. God only knows how many public servants are involved in this bullshit.

But I actually “get that” as well. PINK BATS anyone? Royal Commission? Aussie installers dead? Kevin Rudd was punished of course (with an appointment as US Ambassador). These people are corrupt grubs.

To be fair, the whole “Pink Batts” thingy made sense on paper from a economic perspective. 25% of energy gets lost through the roof, it cuts people’s electricity bills, take’s pressure off the grid….yadda…yadda. It stacked up. The problem here (as the Royal Commission found) was the execution of the “roll out”. And the electrocutions as it turned out.

You can sort of see why Labor want to “over manage” their latest Green innovation. This time, they are going to target the elephant in the room – “windows” which lose 40% of energy. Fair enough. Again, the figures stack up. It cuts people’s electricity bills, take’s pressure off the grid….yadda…yadda. Fair enough. If I can save some significant $$$, alls good.

But here is where I’m getting confused.

The Government is saying that they have $1b in “low interest” loans to assist
110,000 homeowners. The average Aussie home has 11-12 windows.

In the meantime, they have regulated that all “new home builds” (173,000 in 2023) require either double glazing or triple glazing. During a rental crisis, it would seem to me that adding to the building cost isn’t exactly beneficial. What additional cost is that exactly? Do any Cats know?

From what I’ve researched, curtains reduce energy loss by 10%, single glazing by 10%, double glazing by 30% and triple glazing by “up to” 80%.

Google tells me that apparently glazing costs between $150 – $1500 per sqm. WTF? That’s hardly an accurate way to figure this shit out. Pick a number, any number. If anyone has recently had some glazing done, or has industry knowledge, I’d love your insights. I can sort of roughly figure out where the Government figures come from.

I’m currently doing a “project”, so if any “Economist Cats” can explain where the Government figures come from, I’d be interested to know.

Until then, I’ll remain as confused as fuck. Nothing adds up.

I see from the old fred that JC has been on the turps early

dillo!

Thanks Tom.
Ben Garrison today is outstanding.

Bushie – Republican voters will vote for anyone provided two things:

1. The policies espoused by the candidate are basically Tea Party policies
2. The candidate is at war with the GOP elites and wishes to take control of the party away from them.

Unfortunately there’s only one candidate that meets those two criteria. Vivek partly met (1) and does meet (2) but fell down on tax policy and Israel policy.

All the rest of the stable fell at the first hurdle, mainly by cosying up to the party elites and the donor class. DeSantis’s numbers collapsed right after he attended the elite donor meeting which Trump was banned from.

Speaking of elite bubbles Tim Blair has an unpaywalled blog post today on Katherine Murphy. Enjoy!

Prime Minister Albanese’s Murphy of the People (30 Jan)

shatterzzz,
the story kept pointing out there was “only one toilet”! Poor diddums. There were nine in my house and one toilet when I was growing up. At least ours was inside, looxury. Others nearby still had outside loos.

Have I missed something specific being released ..?
Why are there so many kiss & tell tales involving Tony Abbott’s time as PM doing the media rounds the past few dayz .. ?

TheirABC has put together a ‘documentary’ (i.e. hit job) on the Coalition’s years in power, and certain blabbermouths with axes to grind or simply the desire to get their faces on TV have been stupidly providing them with material.

Paul Kelly in the Oz on the liar’s stage 3 tax backflip.

Australians should enjoy their July 1 tax cuts because working middle-class people are destined to be throttled on higher personal income taxes many years into the future – the real economic and political secret in Labor’s tax policy reversal.

The 2023 Intergenerational Report, prepared by Treasury, mapped the inexorable future short of a policy revolution – personal income tax will boom from contributing a record 50.5 per cent of total tax receipts in 2022-23 to reach 58.4 per cent in 2062-63. That trajectory reveals the power of the trend.

To grasp the craziness of Australia’s experiment, at the turn of the century when John Howard was in office the personal income tax share of tax total was just over 40 per cent.

The iron law of politics says the current trend is obviously unsustainable but the opposing iron law says the scale of tax reform needed to fix the problem is equally unsustainable.

Australia is in a long-run trap. In the short term, it faces a fraudulent election campaign in 2025, a bitter brawl over Labor’s changes to the stage three tax cuts, only destined to mislead about the challenges arising from current income tax trends.

The IGR report, looking at the next 10 years, said personal income taxes equated with 11.7 per cent of GDP in 2022-23 but are projected to increase to 13.5 per cent within the decade – a hefty lift in a relatively short time. The political time bomb is ticking.

READ MORE: PM’s tax changes show that old Labor habits die hard | Coalition splits over ALP tax cuts overhaul | PM’s tax cut doesn’t make up for cost-of-living losses | Albanese tax cut lie one more shot in Labor class war |
But there’s a catch because the actual situation is worse. The IGR said “taxpayers have declined as a share of the total population since peaking in 2005-06”. A smaller proportion of the population is going to be paying a larger proportion of the tax revenue.

Our excessive reliance on personal income tax is colliding with demography and nothing will halt the march of demography, with the IGR saying the personal income tax base will “continue to narrow in line with the projected decline in workforce participation”. There are now four people working for every person over the age of 65 years and this will fall to 2.7 people at 2060.

There are two things you need to know about Labor’s tax revamp – it’s a tax redistribution and it’s a massive breach of Labor’s election mandate. You need to put them together.

The tax redistribution, compared with the Morrison government’s legislated stage three, means Labor’s big number of winners get a relatively small amount of dollars (about $16 a week at average weekly earnings) while Labor’s much smaller number of losers lose a relatively large amount of dollars (about $88 a week for someone on $200,000). Labor says above $146,000 you pay more.

The moral is the days of tax reform with all-round winners is dead. If you doubt this, check out the long-run budget deficit projection for the next decade. Labor’s decisions last week offer an insight into the future – the fiscal squeeze means redistribution, winners and losers, is now the name of the game.

Independent economist Saul Eslake said unlike the Howard government’s GST-led tax reform, the situation we now face is fundamentally different because “some individuals and groups within the Australian community are going to have to be made worse off and it may well be that a large proportion of the population will have to pay more tax, in some form or other”.

How is that to be managed? Labor offers one model: don’t bother about a mandate, just do it. If Labor had opposed the stage three tax cuts at the last election it would have probably lost. Being in office is different – it will legislate its package and seek the public’s consent post-event.
Will the experience persuade Labor to offer a more ambitious tax agenda at the 2025 election, dealing with negative gearing, capital gains or superannuation taxes?

Don’t hold your breath. Only a deluded optimist or a teal searching for a way to justify Labor’s tax revamp is likely to believe that.

It is astonishing that Jim Chalmers, when asked about more tax reforms (negative gearing and franking credits), said “we haven’t changed our view” and Labor was “not contemplating” such reforms.

Sound familiar? It’s the language used for years ruling out changes to stage three.

Welcome to the new politics on tax changes. Nothing is happening until circumstances change and Labor gets Treasury to whistle up new advice on new circumstances. Sure beats seeking a mandate. And with a progressive Senate, you don’t need to worry about parliamentary authorisation.

The real point, however, is there’s no obvious way forward, trying to halt the aspiration-killing march of personal income tax within an equitable and politically viable policy framing.

The growth in income tax collections is having a direct political impact on many households, as was apparent from the national accounts, released in December. While rising interest rates have incurred virtually all media attention and electoral complaint in the cost-of-living crisis, the rise in income tax has been as potent if not more potent.
Comparing data from the national accounts and looking at the two-year period (September quarter 2021 to September quarter 2023), Judo Bank chief economic adviser Warren Hogan said: “Income taxes have been a bigger drain on household disposable income than have interest payments.”

Hogan’s analysis shows income tax paid by households rose from $65.1bn in September 2021 to a whopping $91bn two years later, an astonishing increase that drives the budget bottom line recovery and derives from bracket creep, high migration and a strong labour market. The real surge has come in the last 12 months, from $73.7bn to $91bn, September to September. By comparison, mortgage interest payments increased from $11.2bn to $29.7bn across the same September quarters comparison, 2021 to 2023. While in percentage terms the mortgage payment increase is higher, the dollar value of the increase in income tax is far larger.

Hogan told this column: “There has been a misconception that this was all the fault of the Reserve Bank and that has suited the government.

“Yet this has been a far broader public policy issue. This government has basically spent its first 18 months in office blaming the RBA for all the misery out there when it is actually income tax that has gone up more.

“Bracket creep has had a bigger impact on middle-income Australia than the RBA’s interest rate rises.

“There will be arguments that bracket creep is not the only factor driving higher income taxes – promotions and a growing labour force – but I think this is clutching at straws. At the moment we have an excessive reliance on income tax, on personal income tax in particular, and an extreme reliance on the top 20 per cent of income earners.”

Labor’s tax revamp will invite truckloads more analysis of the flaws in our tax system. One answer is to index the rate scale; but the politicians hate that idea. Forget it.

They prefer what we do now – periodically cut taxes, cynically brag about making people better off, but merely preside over increasing the personal income tax burden, and hope upon hope to avert the big smash inherent in a system that needs large-scale reform.

PAUL KELLY EDITOR-AT-LARGE

Imran Khan – champion cricketer, mad rooter and liver of the high life, and former Paki president – has been binned for ten years.

One can only imagine how much wealth he would have poured into his own pocket at the expense of his unnecessarily poverty-stricken country.

Oh well. No more hobnobbing with the upper crust and porking princesses for you, buddy.

Thanks Peter for the Kelly piece. May be the best Kelly has written in years. This piece is a good example of journalism without a bias, should be required reading for jism students but of course won’t as it doesn’t tell the reader what to think.

The thing to do shatterzzz is to cut a hole in the wall and let the use your spare bedrooms, have you no compassions for overcrowded reffo’s.

them

The AER & AEMO trying to claim a big part of the fall in wholesale power prices is down to the growth of renewables.

It is in a way but mainly due to rooftop solar dumping price for about four hours a day. The big fall in black coal prices is a major contributing as well.

They want the dumbed down public to think that a massive build in large scale renewables will further push down power bills.

The bill is the problem as it has to be paid. 50-60 billion to be funded from power users and dropped into the pockets of multi-national dominated by Chinese companies and components manufacturers.

The big battery part is being kicked down the road in order to cover an absurd lack of on-demand power and storage by building a vast and grossly wasteful transmission system that hopes enough sunshine and wind will be available at the right times to power the grid.

Regulators like the AER are completely captured by the government’s renewables push and the corporate interests involved.

One thing we’ve learnt in this fight is that there is no part of the regulatory system that is not partly or fully on board with the climate change mantra and the rights of citizens is considered subservient to the interests of big policy and big investors.

How many people can I murder and only get 25 years all up for?

This is an interesting development!

Twelve? The magic number is twelve.

Damn. It’s not good value. I only have nine on my card right now.

If only I had some drug lords to snitch on.

He’s matched with Tori and the experts excitedly describe the pair as “highly sexually driven individuals”. The only problem? They’re both self-described alphas. Uh-oh! This is not gonna work if they’re both wanting to be the one wielding the spanking paddle.

Jack starts worrying and pledges to remain top dog.

Funny story. My high school was in a less developed country zone of Australia.

HSC physics, we had the delight of the two mongrel male bit desexed dogs owned by the loveable bogans across the road, rooting loudly one period after lunch.

Maybe it was a sub dom thing. Homosexuality has been observed in some animals, I don’t think so with dogs.

The upshot is that someone is gonna get F’d in the A. The question is, Mormon abstinence or Myra Breckenridge?

A quiz for divorced fathers.

A famous Australian model leaves her billionaire husband. She cucks him and lets you spend his money.

She wants a relationship and is willing to STFU about astrology and coconut water.

She, however, begins grooming you with very good sandwiches and ever deeper walks into her secret garden.

The one condition is she insists that read Myra Beckenridge as your relationship deepens in a two week get away at Bora Bora.

What do you do? What do you do?

Greens deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi should be tarred and feathered,

Too good for it.

I’d be going for the “world record kicking in the cnut record”

(h/t Derek & Clive)

Echo echo echo!

‘I don’t see systematic bias at the ABC’: Anderson (Paywallian)

ABC managing director David Anderson has defended its impartiality, telling Patricia Karvelas in an interview that he doesn’t ‘think there’s bias in our reporting’.

Amazing. If he can’t see the bleeding obvious he’s clearly not competent to be running the place. Fire him, fire his biased employees then demolish the buildings and salt the earth.

Karvelas’s first question to Mundine after her Voice lost showed no bias. No bias whatsoever. Long live the ABC and let’s double its funding. Employees should not be taxed either.

I honestly don’t know why you would want to have a small business in Australia and employ staff.

My experience was you must do everything yourself anyway and you have to treat suppliers like insolent children.

Upwardly managing strangers might be a strange idea but when you see nothing happening until you do it, then it becomes apparent why it must be done, as arrogant and dissociative as it feels.

On the other hand, I worked in a business where junior analysts were the first to be let go in a downturn, regardless of performance and the director of first impressions got a bonus before the junior analysts did – off the backs of the junior analysts.

Ho ho ho. It’s tough out there!

The one upside was one semi retired director liked me above all other employees and talked about rugby, fishing, wine etc. A man’s man’s man’s man’s man’s man.

Then again, I have been the unpaid supervisor for a dogshit employee who took six months to throw under the bus during COVID.

Quite frankly I’m willing to accept an IQ based command system at this point.

No, plants do not crave Brawndo.

Albo could give everyone tax cut. The lifelong ALP voters won’t vote Liberal soon.

Albo challenged Dutton on the tax cuts

The frustrating thing is Albo allowed the low and middle income tax offset (LMITO) to expire without renewal, then a year or so later announces “tax cuts” for low income people – which are less than the tax offset was.

So he’s taken the money out of their pockets and is now giving some of it back to them and is saying “aren’t we generous?” Breathtaking arrogance and mendacity.

And that’s ignoring the 37% bracket that they lied about removing.

No one in the media is reporting any of this, not even Sky News as far as I know.

The only acceptable income tax to me now is a 100k TFT (indexed) and 10% above that, treat ALL income (corpos, CGT, personal/professional income, royalties etc) equally, no deductions other than economically necessary ones like COGS or depreciation (which is real, gawd I hate those property spruikers who say otherwise).

Black Ball’s post re NRL’s tepid response to Sonny Bill Williams’ social media support of sub-humans …. crossing over to Israel Falou for a comment.

Haha, Tim Blair has now got a blog post up on David Anderson’s laughable claims.

Wednesday Noticeboard (unpaywalled)

Today’s noticeboard is brought to you by the ABC’s latest pitiful wails of innocence.

Read on…

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Bruce of Newcastle
Jan 31, 2024 10:10 AM

Albo challenged Dutton on the tax cuts

The frustrating thing is Albo allowed the low and middle income tax offset (LMITO) to expire without renewal, then a year or so later announces “tax cuts” for low income people – which are less than the tax offset was.

So he’s taken the money out of their pockets and is now giving some of it back to them and is saying “aren’t we generous?” Breathtaking arrogance and mendacity.

And that’s ignoring the 37% bracket that they lied about removing.

No one in the media is reporting any of this, not even Sky News as far as I know.

BON,

as a Self Funded Retiree I noticed it.

I cannot believe the SFL’s & National Party are not shouting this from the Roof tops!

Here Goes the Furure Fund

‘Ideologically driven fantasy’: Labor set to announce massive WA wind farm as part of move to reduce state government emissions by 80 per cent by 2030

Revelations that the Albanese Government is set to release a significant tract of water for offshore wind farming is the latest manifestation of Energy Minister Chris Bowen’s inane and unviable renewables dream, writes Rocco Loiacono SkyNews.com.au Contributor and Political Commentator.

In June 2022, the WA state Labor government announced plans to reduce its own emissions by 80 per cent by 2030.

However, given the geographical and economic realities present in WA, any insufficiently planned proposed offshore wind farms will most likely irreparably damage the environment (terrestrial and marine) and unnecessarily displace the fishing industry.

It is another manifestation of Energy Minister Chris Bowen’s inane and ideologically driven renewable energy fantasy, one that can never be realistically delivered.

I can reveal the declared area is earmarked from Mandurah to Dunsborough (south of Perth) and out into very deep waters, well beyond the engineering capability of any renewable project in the world.

If they are fixed, to install the turbine towers, reefs must be levelled to then allow steel pylons to be driven deep into the bedrock, thus damaging the ocean floor beyond repair.

The raucous piledriving will go on for months if not years, and is known to literally scare away whales, dolphins and other marine life, including commercially important species like sharks and mackerel.

The impacts on Australia’s most valuable wild caught fishery, the western rock lobster industry worth over $360 million per year, have not even been considered let alone addressed.

Moreover, fixed wind turbines are limited to water depth between 30 to 80 metres, so why would the federal government announce a declared area in water depths up to 1000 metres?

In the case of floating wind turbines, their platforms require major engineering stabilisers to ensure the towers are strictly rigid during operation.

Monster steel chains are used to fix them to huge concrete footings in the ocean floor.

Why is it that a recent tender for an area of UK waters attracted no proposals from windfarm developers?

The reason is simple – offshore wind energy production is uneconomic without significant government subsidies and guaranteed highly priced offtake agreements.

If the projects were to proceed, where would the construction experience and technical manpower be found to assemble and install these massive structures when the demand has already been soaked up in the northern hemisphere?

The taxpayer will inevitably feel the pinch of this renewable nightmare in more ways than one, first financially through government subsidies – without which the renewable energy industry cannot survive, and secondly in future power supply – the community’s energy security is under significant threat through such ill-conceived planning.

Thanks to Chris Bowen’s zealotry, he cannot see that the idea of coal fired power stations being turned off and replaced by a smooth transition to solar and wind power is naïve and poorly conceived, not to mention ecologically and economically ruinous, while at the same time making no difference to temperatures.

Wake up’: Labor moving towards powerful ‘big brother government’

Sky News host Peta Credlin has warned Australians must “wake up” to Labor’s changing agenda as they move towards an “ever more powerful big brother government”.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced former union boss Greg Combet would be taking over from former Coalition treasurer Peter Costello to become the new Future Fund chair.

“It’s why Labor are changing the superannuation rules to limit people’s ability to use their super to help with the purchase of their first home, as originally proposed by the Coalition at the last election.”

It also alleged that one of those targeted had transferred weapons and ammunition for use in those planned attacks.

Go and plough one of those mythical 72 virgins you filth.

Israel 1, Filth 0.

For anyone in Wentworth Electorate (and beyond) there is proposed an afternoon of speechifying: Speakers are Judith Sloan, Economist, Ben Beattie, Electrical Engineer – the Baseload podcast; Alexandra Marshall ADH TV host and Spectator columnist; Aidan Morrison from the CIS, Damien Timbs, Farmer from Walch and Nick Cater Senior Fellow, Menzies Research Centre.
Details as follows: The Wentworth Energy Forum on Sunday 25 February 2:30pm for 3:00pm start. Payment at the door $20.00 for adults; $10.00 for students. For enquiries call 0488 040 040
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I’ve copied and pasted this link into Google — and it works

The Jewish People’s Existence Attests To God’s Existence

The very fact that there are still Jews today serves as a motive of credibility manifesting the miraculous power of God in the world.

Tinta – are you expecting any NSW Lieborals?

Absolutely. Covered in moldy bandage wrapping, with their arms out chanting ‘BRAAAAINS!’

I see that Zac Drury, the staffer photographed at a Nicki Haley event in the US, has been moved on from Albanese’s office. But if a Christian or Jewish school wants to get rid of a teacher who openly trashes their faith, they are huperoffspring rights abusers.

On the Port Macquarie Greens, is it any coincidence that Faruqi owns a big block of land there which she is subdividing into five houses? (Our genocidal fascist racist imperialist hellhole of a country has treated her so terribly, don’t you know?)

The project, by the way, involves extensive felling of native trees which are possible koala habitats, and there is no sign of ‘social’ or ‘affordable’ housing being on the agenda. But there is no sign of protest from the usual suspects either. Where’s the Environmental Defenders Office when the koalas need them?

Iran seems to have been trumped by classified documents

Two weeks later, Erdogan’s AK (Justice and Devleopment) Party has announced plans to establish a German branch & run candidates in the June election who will campaign for open borders and increased welfare benefits.

We already have the Democrat Party with ALP thralls.

You’d assume campaign and political donation laws would make overt “branches” illegal here. I know when I donated to the Libertarian candidate for Dunkley last night, I had to declare my Australian-ness.

Albanese government staffers are demanding a 20 per cent pay rise

Hahaha – surely even idiot Albo wouldn’t fall for that one. But?

Sinn Fein claims Irish reunification ‘within touching distance’ after DUP ends Stormont deadlock

The DUP opposed both the Northern Ireland Protocol to prevent a hard land border and the Windsor Framework, which reduced Irish Sea checks, on the grounds it put the region’s place in the UK’s internal market at risk.

The Windsor Framework: What are its key provisions?

Trade

The deal introduces a new “green lane”, under which goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland-only will be freed of unnecessary paperwork, checks and duties.

Bans on certain products – such as sausages, seed potatoes and 11 native trees – entering Northern Ireland from Britain will be scrapped.

Pets and products

Rules under which pet owners travelling from Britain to Northern Ireland had to show a vet-issued health certificate and proof of up-to-date rabies vaccination before every visit will be scrapped.

Parcels will not be subject to full custom declarations. From 2024, parcel operators will be required to share data with the EU to manage smuggling risks.

Taxes

UK VAT and excise rules will apply to Northern Ireland for immovable goods such as heat pumps and alcoholic drinks for immediate consumption.

EU VAT rules will still apply for other items.

Sovereignty

The proportion of EU rules applied in Northern Ireland will shrink to less than 3 per cent.

If Northern Ireland starts to diverge significantly from the bloc’s rules, the EU has the power to take “appropriate remedial measures”.

Northern Ireland Protocol Bill

This controversial legislation, introduced under Boris Johnson, which would have given the UK the power to scrap the old protocol deal, is ditched.

Legal opinion published by the Government says there is now “no legal justification” for going ahead with it.

Ooookaaay then ….

A new shawarma restaurant called “October 7” opened in Amman, the capital of Jordan.

Scroll about one fifth of the way down the page.
Is this footage legit?

These Are The 50 Top Power-Consuming Data-Center Markets In The World

We live in an information-abundant digital world, where data is the new currency, and data centers are the vaults that protect and power it.

The amount of data created each year has skyrocketed from 2 zettabytes in 2010 to 44 zettabytes (44 trillion gigabytes) in 2020. This has surged demand for data storage and processing, leading to the construction of massive data centers around the world.

So, where are the biggest data centers?

In this graphic,Visual Capitalist’s Julie Peasley uses 2023 data from Cushman & Wakefield to shed light on the biggest data center markets.

The Biggest Data Center Markets

Today, it is estimated that there are over 8,000 data centers in the world.

While a majority of these data center markets are in the United States, some of them are scattered across Asia and Europe.

Rank Data Center Market Country Capacity (MW)

1 Northern Virginia United States 2,552
2 Beijing China 1,799
3 London United Kingdom 1,053
4 Singapore Singapore 876
5 Tokyo Japan 865
6 Frankfurt Germany 864
7 Shanghai China 725
8 Sydney Australia 667
9 Dallas United States 654
10 Silicon Valley United States 615
11 Phoenix United States 615
12 Chicago United States 555
13 Amsterdam Netherlands 531
14 Hong Kong Hong Kong 417
15 New York City – Northern New Jersey United States 392
16 Paris France 391
17 Portland United States 382
18 Mumbai India 380
19 Atlanta United States 360
20 Seoul South Korea 330
21 Dublin Ireland 304
22 Toronto Canada 267
23 Osaka Japan 241
24 Los Angeles United States 206
25 Salt Lake City United States 203
26 Las Vegas United States 173
27 Johannesburg South Africa 161
28 Querétaro Mexico 150
29 Melbourne Australia 149
30 Jakarta Indonesia 144
31 Montreal Canada 127
32 São Paulo Brazil 122
33 Madrid Spain 120
34 Milan Italy 111
35 Zurich Switzerland 111
36 Delhi India 110
37 Seattle United States 105
38 Boston United States 95
39 Reykjavík Iceland 88
40 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 87
41 Warsaw Poland 86
42 Denver United States 78
43 Stockholm Sweden 74
44 Munich Germany 67
45 Santiago Chile 61
46 Berlin Germany 60
47 Chennai India 57
48 Marseille France 50
49 Oslo Norway 48
50 Columbus United States 41

With nearly 300 data centers, including many AWS servers, the Northern Virginia data center market is the largest in the world. Data centers in the region are estimated to handle more than one-third of global online traffic.

It’s no coincidence that they are major hubs for government and commerce—the world’s largest data center markets are near capital cities, as historically, governments (and their militaries) were the first to invest in internet infrastructure.

Future of Data