US soil hosts 31 percent of Ethereum nodes as centralization risks loom

Ethereum’s backbone is leaning heavily on Uncle Sam. New data from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance shows the United States accounts for 31% of the network's node activity. It’s not just a geographic bottleneck; the infrastructure is piled onto a handful of private servers. Nearly half of the global node population sits on just three providers: AWS, Hetzner, and OVH. If a third of these nodes go dark simultaneously, the network loses its ability to finalize transactions. That’s a massive vulnerability for a system built on the promise of decentralization. Regulators in a single jurisdiction now hold the theoretical power to disrupt global settlement by targeting a few data centers. This clustering turns technical glitches or policy shifts in Virginia or Oregon into systemic threats for every ETH holder. Will developers find a way to migrate to the edges, or is Ethereum’s physical map already too locked in?