Methodology
Every number comes from the operator’s own page or filing, with a link and the date we checked it. Last full check: 2026-11-11.
Who is in the list
20 operators in four groups: hyperscale clouds that sell infrastructure to customers, internal and AI-only hyperscalers such as Meta, Apple and CoreWeave, and regional alternatives such as OVHcloud and STACKIT that buyers shortlist against them. Every operator carries at least three sourced fields beyond its name.
Regions, row by row
The 306 region rows come from 13 providers’ own region lists: the AWS Regions and Availability Zones page and docs table, the Azure regions list, Compute Engine regions and zones, OCI regions and availability domains, Alibaba ECS regions and zones, Tencent Cloud regions and AZs, the IBM Cloud locations docs, and the published location lists of OVHcloud, DigitalOcean, IONOS, Scaleway, STACKIT and Yandex. Each row holds the region code, location, country, zones, launch year and status. Launch years appear where the provider or its launch release states them; AWS publishes one for every region.
Operator totals use the provider’s own headline count where it publishes one (AWS 39 regions and 124 zones, Google Cloud 43 and 130, Huawei Cloud 34 and 103, Alibaba Cloud 32 and 109) and the count of rows in its region list otherwise. Countries are counted from the live rows. Oracle calls its zones availability domains; we show them in the same column.
AI capacity, capex and sovereign cloud
AI capacity is the operator’s own announcement in gigawatts or megawatts, or the scale of a named AI cluster, with its date. Capex is the latest reported quarter from the earnings release or filing, group-wide for parent companies, with full-year guidance where management gave it. For the full quarterly series, see Hyperscaler Capex; for campus-level megawatts, see AI Data Center List. Sovereign cloud lists named sovereign, government and in-country offerings.
Sources and updates
First-party pages come first: region lists, product docs, investor releases and filings. Trade press fills gaps only where a company publishes nothing itself, and the record names the outlet. Every field links to the source behind it. Send a newer source to hello@hyperscalerlist.com and we update the record and its date. A paid placement is labelled Featured and never changes the data or the sort order.
Open data
Download the operators as CSV or JSON and the regions as CSV or JSON, under CC BY 4.0. Credit Hyperscaler List.
Operator fields
- Type
- Hyperscale cloud, internal hyperscaler, AI cloud or regional alternative.
- Regions
- Live cloud regions, from the operator's own region page or region list.
- Zones
- Availability zones (availability domains at Oracle) the operator states across its regions.
- Countries
- Countries and territories with at least one live region, counted from the operator's region list.
- Named locations
- Deployment locations the operator names where it publishes no region count.
- Data centers
- Data center count in the operator's own words.
- Owned vs leased
- What the operator discloses about owning or leasing its facilities.
- AI capacity
- Announced AI data center capacity in GW or MW, or the scale of a named AI cluster.
- AI compute
- The operator's AI accelerators, instances or internal AI platform.
- Latest capex
- Latest reported capital expenditure with its period, plus guidance where given. Group-wide figures for parent companies.
- Investment plan
- Multi-year AI and cloud investment programs, separate from annual capex.
- Sovereign cloud
- Named sovereign, government or in-country cloud offerings.
Region fields
- Provider
- The cloud operator that runs the region.
- Region code
- The API or CLI identifier for the region.
- Location
- City, metro or state as the operator names it.
- Country
- Country or territory of the region.
- ISO code
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of the country or territory.
- Launched
- Year the region opened, where the operator or its launch release states it.
- Region zones
- Availability zones in this region (availability domains at Oracle).
- Status
- Live, or announced by the operator and not yet open.