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DATACENTERTYCOON

Build the internet, brick by brick.

A free Transport Tycoon mod where DATA is cargo and BANDWIDTH is gold. Mine the dirt, bake the chips, lay the fiber, wire the power, deliver compute to the towns — and watch the money pour in.

SECTION I · The game in 60 seconds

EVERY PFLOPS
STARTS AS DIRT.

The whole game is one big production chain. You move stuff from where it's made to where it's needed. Each link in the chain is a hauling contract waiting for someone to win it.

1 MINE outputs RARE · SILC
2 🧪 FAB consumes RARE, SILC
outputs WAFR
3 📦 CHIP consumes WAFR
outputs CHIP
4 DATACENTER CHIP + ELEC + BAND
outputs COMPUTE
5 💰 BILL COMPUTE over fiber to towns & offices
$$$
01

The slowest input wins.

A datacenter starved of chips, power OR bandwidth makes no compute. The bottleneck is the game.

02

Distance is money.

Longer hauls pay more — but tie up rolling stock, eat fuel, and demand schedule discipline.

03

Fiber or no sale.

Compute and bandwidth ride fiber only — no rail, no road. Lay a FIBR line into every datacenter, office park and town ISP, or the cash never lands.

SECTION II · The map

TEN INDUSTRIES
TO CONNECT.

Every dot on the map has appetites and outputs. Your job: route between them faster, cheaper, and smarter than the AI competitors trying to do the same.

EXTRACTION

Rare Earth Mine

Strip-mines tucked into hillsides. The starting point of every chip on the planet.

OUT RARE
EXTRACTION

Silica Quarry

The other half of the wafer recipe. Cheap to haul, heavy to move.

OUT SILC
FABRICATION

Wafer Fab

Massive clean-room complex. Eats two raw inputs, outputs the substrate every chip plant needs.

IN RARE SILC
OUT WAFR
FABRICATION

Chip Packaging Plant

Finishes the silicon. The finished chip is the gold standard of high-margin freight.

IN WAFR
OUT CHIP
UTILITY

Power Plant

Megawatts on demand. Run truck or wagon tankers to the datacenters. They get thirsty.

OUT ELEC
UTILITY

Fiber Backbone

Spool after spool of cable. Bandwidth is the cargo. Lay it dense to feed cities and DCs alike.

OUT BAND
SUPPORT

DC Supplies Plant

Spare parts, cooling fluid, gear. Datacenters slow down without a steady drip.

OUT SUPP
★ HUB INFRASTRUCTURE

Datacenter

The crown jewel. Eats chips, power and bandwidth all at once and exhales compute.

IN CHIP ELEC BAND
OUT COMPUTE
$ MARGIN DEMAND

Office Park

The white-collar gravy. Pays well for fresh compute. Buys steadily, complains constantly.

IN COMPUTE
$ MARGIN DEMAND

Town ISP

Residential bandwidth, packaged and resold. The friendly neighborhood monopoly.

IN BAND
SECTION III · The freight

EIGHT CARGOS,
ONE ECONOMY.

Each cargo wants a different vehicle, different speed, different schedule. Master all eight and the map is yours.

RARE

Rare Earths

Hauled in hoppers from the mine to the wafer fab.

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SILC

Silica

Dusty and heavy. Pairs with rare earths to make wafers.

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WAFR

Silicon Wafers

Fragile high-value freight. Boxcars only.

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CHIP

Finished Chips

The fast lane. High margin, low volume, schedule-sensitive.

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ELEC

Electricity

Power-line packets along the new PWRL infra.

MWh
BAND

Bandwidth

Data packets along your FIBR fiber network.

Gbps-days
COMPUTE

Compute Services

Compute packets along the FIBR network. Fiber-only — no road, no rail.

PFLOPS-days
SUPP

DC Supplies

Spares & consumables. Keep them flowing or DCs throttle.

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SECTION IV · The whole game in four moves

THE LOOP.

The whole game in four moves. Repeat with bigger numbers until you own everything.

1

EXTRACT

Wire your first mines & quarries into a hub. Get rare earths and silica moving — quietly.

2

FABRICATE

Stand up a wafer fab and a chip plant. You've just created the most valuable cargo on the map.

3

POWER + WIRE

Lay fiber from a backbone, snake power from a plant, ferry supplies. Three feeds, one datacenter.

4

BILL THE TOWN

Run fiber into every office park and town ISP, fire off compute & bandwidth packets. Cash arrives. Reinvest. Repeat at scale.

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first launch downloads 10 MB of base graphics · auto-loads the DC Tycoon NewGRF + Game Script · starts Jan 1, 2020 with high industry density