Is it actually possible to hide the locations of datacenters? At least large ones?

> not really sure its a wise choice to disclose datacenters anymore publicly.

Transparency is good.

Surely anyone with an interest could find this through various means.

Also easily found potential military targets: power generation, water treatment, hospitals, schools, government buildings, etc.

Kinda hard to hide them when you choose to build them in people’s backyards and ask them for a local tax break. The Meta ones near me are very visible.

And none of the on the continents of Africa or Australia.

I assume that's only their own data centers, not where they rent space in other data centers.

I was confused at first but it seems like the site lists for google products only, doesn't seem to list some of the regions google cloud is available in (such as nothing in shown in Canada). But scrolling down it has a link to Google cloud regions.

Cost prohibitive?

Microsoft is listing positions on their public job board (I know because I'm nosy and they're building a big data center complex a few miles from me). They look like good jobs for the area. A couple pay over $100K and only require a high school diploma for what looks to be essentially security guard roles.