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The first in the list is the one AI says is most closely aligned as far as climate...the others have notable similarities or as close as world cities come to the US city...

New York:
Krasnodar, Russia
Sapporo, Japan
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Belgrade, Serbia
Bucharest, Romania

Los Angeles:
Perth, Australia
Santiago, Chile
Alicante, Spain
Lisbon, Portugal
Adelaide, Australia

Chicago:
Bucharest, Romania
Pyongyang, North Korea
Prague, Czech Republic
Berlin, Germany
Seoul, South Korea

Houston:
Shanghai, China
Guangzhou, China
Sydeny, Australia
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Osaka, Japan

Phoenix:
Baghdad, Iraq
Cairo, Egypt
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Hermosillo, Mexico
Dubai, UAE

Philadelphia:
Krasnodar, Russia
Belgrade, Serbia
Beijing, China
Seoul, South Korea
Sapporo, Japan

San Antonio:
Brisbane, Australia
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Monterrey, Mexico
Seville, Spain
Shanghai, China

San Diego:
Cape Town, South Africa
Perth, Australia
Santiago, Chile
Tijuana, Mexico
Nice, France

Dallas:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Shanghai, China
Brisbane, Australia

Jacksonville:
Brisbane, Australia
Taipei, Taiwan
Hong Kong, China
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Fort Worth:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Brisbane, Australia
Fuzhou, China
Liuzhou, China
Kagoshima, Japan

San Jose:
Lisbon, Portugal
Auckland, New Zealand
Cape Town, South Africa
Perth, Australia

Austin:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Brisbane, Australia
Monterrey, Mexico

Charlotte:
Osaka, Japan
Shanghai, China
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Columbus:
Beijing, China
Bucharest, Romania
Chisinau, Moldova
Helsinki, Finland
Sapporo, Japan

Indianapolis:
Bucharest, Romania
Sapporo, Japan
Minsk, Belarus

San Francisco:
Valparaiso, Chile
Lisbon, Portugal
Cape Town, South Africa
Wellington, New Zealand
Galicia, Spain

Seattle:
Dublin, Ireland
Vancouver, Canada
Bergen, Norway
Manchester, UK
Liverpool, UK

Denver:
Kabul, Afghanistan
Tbilisi, Georgia
Munich, Germany

Oklahoma City:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Brisbane, Australia
Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Tbilisi, Georgia

Nashville:
Tokyo, Japan
Seoul, South Korea
Chengdu, China
Belgrade, Serbia
Istanbul, Turkey

Washington DC:
Tokyo, Japan
Baku, Azerbaijan
Qazvin, Iran
Beijing, China
Seoul, South Korea

El Paso:
Albacete, Spain

Las Vegas:
Baghdad, Iraq
Cairo, Egypt
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Boston:
Copenhagen, Denmark
Sapporo, Japan
Belgrade, Serbia

Detroit:
Sapporo, Japan
Beijing, China
Harbin, China
Toronto, Canada

Louisville:
Milan, Italy
Xi'an, China
Daegu, South Korea

Portland:
Bordeaux, France
Bilbao, Spain
Osorno, Chile

Memphis:
Shanghai, China
Nanjing, China
Tokyo, Japan

Baltimore:
Seoul, South Korea
Busan, South Korea
Belgrade, Serbia

Milwaukee:
Berlin, Germany
Warsaw, Poland
Harbin, China
Sapporo, Japan
Moscow, Russia

Albuquerque:
Mendoza, Argentina
Kerman, Iran
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

Tucson:
Hermosillo, Mexico
Marrakesh, Morocco

Fresno:
Santiago, Chile
Adelaide, Australia
Antalya, Turkey

Sacramento:
Santiago, Chile
Adelaide, Australia
Antalya, Turkey
Cape Town, South Africa

Atlanta:
Osaka, Japan
Tokyo, Japan
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Porto Alegre, Brazil
Milan, Italy

Mesa:
Cairo, Egypt
Baghdad, Ira
Torreon, Mexico
Tozeur, Tunisia

Kansas City:
Beijing, China
Belgrade, Serbia
Christchurch, New Zealand

Raleigh:
Kyoto, Japan
Seoul, South Korea
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tokyo, Japan

Colorado Springs:
all the cities listed were in the US

Omaha:
Harbin, China
Sapporo, Japan

Miami:
Cairns, Australia
Panama City, Panama
Gold Coast, Australia
Tel Aviv, Israel
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Virginia Beach:
Tokyo, Japan
Seoul, South Korea
Shanghai, China
Kagoshima, Japan
Languedoc, France

Long Beach:
Perth, Australia
Lisbon, Portugal
Nice, France
Cadiz, Spain

Oakland:
Viña del Mar, Chile
Cape Town, South Africa
Marseille, France
Mallorca, Spain

Minneapolis:
Sapporo, Japan
Montreal, Canada
Oslo, Norway
Edmonton, Canada
Moscow, Russia

Bakersfield:
Baghdad, Iraq
Basra, Iraq
Cairo, Eqypt
Ahvaz, Iran
Alice Springs, Australia

Tulsa:
Changshu City, China
I'zaz, Syria
Shahre Jadide Andisheh, Iran

Tampa:
Gold Coast, Australia
Hong Kong, China
Taipei, Taiwan
Durban, South Africa

Arlington, TX:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Fuzhou, China
Kagoshima, Japan ]]> City Discussions dimondpark https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=264717 https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=264711&goto=newpost Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:32:10 GMT *That we know of. There is no way in hell there is only 1 Chinese computer in this list, but this is what the disclosed numbers reveal, Also this... *That we know of. There is no way in hell there is only 1 Chinese computer in this list, but this is what the disclosed numbers reveal, Also this ranking changes all the time, this is the latest as of Nov 2025.


Here is a breakdown of the term Rmax(PFlop/s):
Rmax (Maximum Performance): The highest speed achieved during the High-Performance LINPACK (HPL) benchmark, which solves a dense system of linear equations. It differs from "Rpeak," which is merely the theoretical maximum performance a machine could reach.
PetaFLOPS (PFlop/s): A unit of computing speed equal to one quadrillion () floating-point operations per second.

Rank-Rmax(PFlop/s)----Computer Name-Location
1---1,809.0--El Capitan, HPE Livermore Natl Lab, California, USA
2---1.353.0--Frontier, HPE Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Tennessee, USA
3---1,012.0--Aurora, Intel Argonne Natl Lab, Illinois, USA
4---1,000.0--Jupiter Booster, Intel JSC, North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
5---561.20--Eagle, Microsoft Azure, Iowa, USA

6---477.90--PC6, HPE Green Data Center, Lombardy, Italy
7---442.01--Supercomputer Fugaku, Fujistu Riken Center, Saitama, Japan
8---434.90--Alps, HPE Swiss Natl Computing Centre, Lugano, Switzerland
9---379.70--LUMI, HPE CSC Data Center, Kajaani, Finland
10--241.20--Leonardo, EVIDEN EuroHPC/Cineca, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

11--216.50--Isambard-Al phase 2, HPE University of Bristol, UK
12--208.10--Tuolumne, HPE Livermore Natl Lab, California, USA
13--202.40--ISEG2, Nebius AI, Keflavik, Iceland
14--175.30--MareNostrum, EVIDEN, University of Catalonia, Spain
15--164.20--Discovery 6-HPE ExxonMobil, Texas, USA

16--145.10--ABCI 3.0, HPE AIST Kashiwa Center, Chiba, Japan
17--135.40--CHIE-4, NVIDIA SoftBank Corp, Hokkaido, Japan
18--122.80--Shaheen III, HPE, King Abdullah University, Saudi Arabia
19--121.40--EOS NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, NVIDIA Corporation, California, USA
20--114.50--MAXIMUS-384, DELL Maximus, New York, USA

21--106.20--SSC-24, HPE Samsung Electronics, Suwon, South Korea
22---98.51--Venado, HPE, Livermore Natl Lab, California, USA
23---94.64--Sierra, IBM/NVIDIA/Mellanox, Livermore Natl Lab, California, USA
24---93.01--Sunway TaihuLight, NRCPC, Wuxi, China
25---91.94--CHIE-3, NVIDIA SoftBank Corp, Hokkaido, Japan

26---90.79--CEA-HE, EVIDEN, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Île-de-France, France
27---89.78--CHIE-2, NVIDIA Softbank Corp, Hokkaido, Japan
28---84.31--PowerEdge XE9680, DELL, Shakti Cloud, Yotta Data Services Private LTD. Karnataka, India
29---81.55--NANO 4, ASUS/Taiwan Cloud/Taiwan Mobile, Taiwan
30---79.23--Perlmutter, HPE, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, California, USA

31---78.20--Njoerd, HPE Northern Data Group, London, UK
32---74.58--ABCI-Q, Fujitsu AIST Kashiwa Center, Chiba, Japan
33---68.02--El Dorado, HPE Sandia Natl Labs, New Mexico, USA
34---66.59--Gefion, NVIDIA Danish Center for AI Innovation, Denmark
35---63.46--Selene, NVIDIA Corporation, California, USA

36---56.60--Harpia, Lenovo Petróleo Brasileiro S.A, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
37---55.81--SuperPOD, NVIDIA Core42, Abu Dhabi, UAE
38---54.12--AI-03, Supermicro Core42, Abu Dhabi, UAE
39---53.96--Explorer-WUS3, Microsoft Azure, Arizona, USA
40---52.18--Jean Zay H100, EVIDEN Île-de-France, France

41---49.85--FPT AI Factory Japan, HPE, Chiba, Japan
42---46.80--Miyabi-G, Fujitsu JACHPC University of Tokyo, Japan
43---46.65--FPT AI Factory Vietnam, ASUS, Hanoi, Vietnam
44---46.54--ISEG, Nebius AI, Mantsala, Finland
45---46.10--Adastra, HPE GENCI-CINES, Herault, France

46---45.82--Ubilink, Asustek Ubilink AI Co. LTD, Taipei, Taiwan
47---45.59--Reindeer, Microsoft Azure, Washington, USA
48---44.12--JUWELS Booster, EVIDEN FZJ, North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
49---41.50--Israel-1, DELL, NIVIDIA Corporation, Ein HaEmek, Israel
50---40.10--MareNostrum 5 GPP, Lenovo, University of Catalonia, Spain

The Full Ranking of the Top 500:
https://top500.org/lists/top500/list/2025/11/ ]]> City Discussions dimondpark https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=264711 https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=264682&goto=newpost Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:22:21 GMT This was released April 16 by the US Labor Dept. I included all Metros under 1 Million pop that grew by 5,000+ *_Metropolitan Areas(MSA) by... This was released April 16 by the US Labor Dept.

I included all Metros under 1 Million pop that grew by 5,000+

Metropolitan Areas(MSA) by
Change in Non-Farm Jobs, Jan 2025-Jan 2026:
+41,900--Dallas-Ft Worth-Arlington
+36,300--Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim
+24,300--Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands
+19,300--Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas
+19,300--San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara
+18,800--Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos
+15,800--Kansas City
+15,500--San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont
+15,100--Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario
+13,000--Chicago-Naperville-Elgin
+12,800--Raleigh-Cary
+12,500--New York-Newark-Jersey City
+11,600--Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia
+10,900--Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom
+10,900--San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad
+8,400---Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington
+8,100---Fresno
+7,300---Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers
+6,800---Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford
+6,300---Stockton-Lodi
+6,200---Greenville-Anderson-Greer
+6,100---Salt Lake City-Murray
+6,000---Albany Schenectady-Troy
+5,400---Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton
+5,300---Bakersfield
+5,100---San Antonio-New Braunfels
+5,000---Reno
+4,800---Nashville-Murfreesboro-Franklin
+3,700---Buffalo-Cheektowaga
+3,700---Pittsburgh
+3,500---Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury
+3,400---Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell
+3,400---Cincinnati
+3,400---Columbus
+3,400---Rochester(NY)
+2,900---Birmingham
+2,400---St Louis
+2,200---Providence-Warwick
+1,900---Tulsa
+600-----Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford

-900-----Honolulu
-1,700---Denver-Aurora-Centennial
-1,700---Louisville
-1,700---Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue
-2,100---Minneapolis-St Paul-Bloomington
-2,300---Memphis
-2,600---Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood
-2,600---Richmond
-3,300---Detroit-Warren-Dearborn
-3,400---Tampa-St Petersburg-Clearwater
-3,400---Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk
-3,800---Oklahoma City
-3,900---Jacksonville
-3,900---Tucson
-5,100---Cleveland
-6,400---Milwaukee-Waukesha
-6,900---Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler
-7,600---New Orleans-Metairie
-7,700---Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood
-20,900--Miami-Ft Lauderdale-Pompano Beach
-21,000--Baltimore-Columbia-Towson
-22,700--Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro
-30,200--Boston-Cambridge-Newton
-103,900-Washington-Arlington-Alexandria

50 States by
Change in Non-Farm Jobs, Jan 2025-Jan 2026:
+146,000-California
+131,600-Texas
+42,500--North Carolina
+34,300--Pennsylvania
+31,400--New York
+30,800--Nevada
+25,500--South Carolina
+24,300--Missouri
+16,600--Ohio
+13,900--Georgia
+13,400--Minnesota
+10,600--Alabama
+10,500--Utah
+9,400---Kansas
+9,200---Arkansas
+9,100---Washington
+6,900---New Jersey
+6,800---Connecticut
+6,600---Kentucky
+5,000---Idaho
+4,000---Illinois
+4,000---Louisiana
+3,100---West Virginia
+1,600---Michigan
+1,300---Alaska
+1,300---Delaware
+1,000---Tennessee
+800-----Rhode Island
+700-----South Dakota
+600-----Mississippi
+400-----Oklahoma
+200-----Wyoming

-100-----Hawaii
-200-----Nebraska
-1,000---Montana
-1,000---New Mexico
-1,000---North Dakota
-1,600---Vermont
-3,500---Maine
-5,900---New Hampshire
-9,500---Colorado
-12,800--Indiana
-13,400--Massachusetts
-13,900--Iowa
-17,200--Wisconsin
-19,400--Arizona
-20,500--Oregon
-24,600--Florida
-29,300--Virginia
-45,100--Washington, DC
-50,000--Maryland


https://www.bls.gov/news.release/metro.t03.htm ]]> City Discussions dimondpark https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=264682 https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=264663&goto=newpost Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:39:25 GMT I recall this being mentioned in another thread, so I decided to look into it.

"...The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development..."--Wiki


2023 HDI
0.972--Iceland
0.970--Norway
0.979--Switzerland
0.962--Denmark
0.959--Germany
0.959--Sweden
0.958--Australia
0.955--Hong Kong
0.955--Netherlands
0.954--New Hampshire
0.953--Massachusetts
0.953--Minnesota
0.952--Hawaii
0.951--Belgium
0.950--Colorado
0.950--Washington
0.949--Iceland
0.949--Vermont
0.948--Finland
0.947--Connecticut
0.946--Singapore
0.946--United Kingdom
0.945--Washington, DC
0.943--Oregon
0.941--New Jersey
0.941--Virginia
0.940--United Arab Emirates
0.939--Canada
0.939--Maryland
0.939--Utah
0.938--Liechtenstein
0.938--New Zealand
0.938--United States
0.937--New Zealand
0.937--North Dakota
0.937--Rhode Island
0.936--Maine
0.935--Nebraska
0.935--New York
0.934--Wisconsin
0.933--California
0.933--Wyoming
0.932--Alaska
0.932--Illinois
0.932--South Dakota
0.931--Iowa
0.931--Montana
0.931--Pennsylvania
0.931--Slovenia
0.930--Austria
0.929--Florida
0.928--Delaware
0.927--Kansas
0.926--Idaho
0.925--Japan
0.924--Malta
0.922--Luxembourg
0.920--France
0.920--Michigan
0.919--Israel
0.918--Spain
0.916--Nevada
0.916--North Carolina
0.915--Croatia
0.915--Italy
0.915--Ohio
0.915--San Marino
0.914--Arizona
0.913--Andorra
0.913--Cyprus
0.913--Georgia
0.912--Missouri
0.912--Texas
0.910--Indiana
0.908--Greece
0.906--Poland
0.905--Estonia
0.904--South Carolina
0.901--Oklahoma
0.901--Tennessee
0.900--Saudi Arabia
0.899--Bahrain
0.896--New Mexico
0.895--Lithuania
0.891--Arkansas
0.890--Kentucky
0.890--Lousiana
0.890--Portugal
0.889--Alabama
0.889--Croatia
0.889--Latvia
0.886--Qatar
0.883--West Virginia
0.880--Slovakia
0.878--Chile
0.873--Mississippi
0.870--Hungary
0.865--Argentina
0.862--Montenegro
0.862--Uruguay
0.858--Oman
0.853--Turkey
0.851--Antigua & Barbados

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...nt_Index_score

https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/ran...0.388%20points.

California should be much higher if per capita income and life expectancy are half of the criteria, and the state ranks in the top 5 in both among all states, but I digress, it's because of the high school graduation rate(85%) that the state is dragged down, which honestly I don't mind. This state has millions of people who immigrated here with little primary education or didnt graduate HS the first time around and have built lives for themselves nonetheless, but that doesn't factor into HDI.

I dont think they factor bachelor and post grad degrees either, not sure. ]]> City Discussions dimondpark https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=264663