# Data Empire — Data Center Game

> Data Empire is a free, browser-based data center game (a data center tycoon / simulator) where you build and run a profitable data center campus governed by real-world economics — power, cooling, PUE, depreciation, utilization, and a live compute market that reacts to your own supply.

## About

Data Empire is a free online **data center game** in the spirit of classic tycoon and management sims. You play as the operator of a data center campus: lay out land, build server halls and racks, provision power and cooling, and grow a compute business. It runs entirely in the browser with no install and no sign-up.

- Genre: simulation / strategy / tycoon (a "data center tycoon")
- Price: free demo (30 in-game days), then **$20 one-time** unlock (pay once, play forever)
- Platform: web browser (desktop and mobile), rendered in 3D with WebGL
- Brand name: **Data Empire** — also searched as "data center game"

## How to play

- Start with a **$15M seed round** on Hard (intended curve); Easy is **$22.5M**.
- Build out a data center campus: racks, power infrastructure, and cooling.
- Manage real-world efficiency metrics — keep PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) low and utilization high.
- Sell compute into a market whose prices react to your own added supply.
- Read finances as **last-24h P&L** (Finance dashboard / top bar) — hourly rates are noisy under time-of-use pricing.
- Watch out for depreciation, power draw, cooling costs, and security incidents ($50k–$250k) as you scale.
- Goal: grow the most efficient, profitable data center empire.

## Key concepts the simulation models

- **PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness)** — overhead of power spent on cooling vs. compute
- **Power** — capacity, draw, cost, and time-of-use peak/off-peak rates
- **Cooling** — required to keep racks online; evaporative vs dry water strategy
- **Depreciation** — hardware loses value over time
- **Utilization** — how fully your compute is used
- **Compute market** — prices respond to supply, including your own
- **Daily P&L** — rolling sum of the last 24 game-hours (default finance view)

## Tech

- Runs in-browser via WebGL (Three.js); no download required.
- Best on a desktop browser with hardware acceleration; mobile UI supported.

## Links

- Play: https://datacentergame.fun/