What is Datacenter IP?
Also: datacenter proxy · hosting IP
A datacenter IP is an address that belongs to a hosting or cloud provider (AWS, Google Cloud, OVH, Hetzner) rather than a consumer ISP. Servers, VPN exits, scrapers, and bots run on datacenter IPs. A datacenter IP alone is not proof of a VPN, but it is rarely a real end-user.
Datacenter IPs are identified by their autonomous system number (ASN) and hosting-provider ownership. The challenge is distinguishing a customer VM running a VPN from one running a legitimate web service — both look identical at the IP level.
CDN edge IPs (Cloudflare, Akamai, Fastly) also live in datacenter ASNs but serve billions of legitimate clients, so good detection allowlists them rather than flagging them as suspicious.
How IPLogs handles it
IPLogs classifies datacenter IPs via MaxMind/PeeringDB ASN data and the X4BNet datacenter aggregator (41,000+ CIDRs), while suppressing the signal for pure-CDN ASNs and trusted public-DNS anycast.
Datacenter IP ranges