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Review Nº 01

What Drives the Location of Data Centers in Europe?
AuthorsHamieh Ali, Nizam Alaa, Guidetti Giovanni, Tanios Joe
29/30
Score
Strong, well-structured submission with leakage-aware preprocessing, interpretable and predictive models, and clear interpretation, though some variable choices and causal claims need more caution.
Data Centres · Final Review

The Pros

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Clear research question and hypotheses; appropriate binary target; strong leakage-prevention narrative; compares interpretable logistic regression with Random Forest; reports cross-validation and held-out test metrics; interprets feature importance in relation to economic, digital, energy, and environmental drivers; includes useful maps and limitations.

The Cons

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Some important variables such as renewable capacity and heat/climate indicators are interpreted somewhat causally despite possible confounding; the logistic model selection rationale could be more transparent; country/spatial dependence is not modelled; limitations are brief relative to the strength of the claims.
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