GEOBEAT quantifies geographic decentralization through a composite index across three dimensions:
How spread out nodes are across physical geography. Combines spatial clustering detection, effective number of locations, and geographic concentration.
Distribution across countries and regulatory environments. Penalizes single-country dominance and rewards absolute jurisdictional diversity.
Diversity across hosting providers and organizations. Detects concentration risk from cloud provider dependencies.
v0 methodology. Thresholds and parameters are documented starting points for community refinement.
v0 Research Preview: Analysis based on snapshot data from November 2025. Methodology and parameters are starting points for community refinement. View proposed methodology or explore the data analysis.
Regional outages create cascading failures when nodes cluster geographically
Jurisdictional concentration enables coordinated government action against networks
Cloud provider concentration hides critical single points of failure
Understanding geographic distribution helps identify resilience risks—the first step toward addressing them