Sweden ranks among the top countries in the world in terms of the number of data centers per capita. Now, foreign tech giants want to build even more—despite warnings about rising electricity prices. At the same time, political opposition is growing to the idea that enormous amounts of Swedish electricity should go to large international corporations.
An international compilation from Kai Reusser places Sweden in ninth place worldwide, with nine data centers per million residents. Only eight countries have more relative to their population. The ranking is based on data from Cargoson and the UN, and it counts the number of facilities, not their electricity consumption.
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