
20 metro cities account for 60% of global colocation market - report
Northern Virginia takes the lead. Beijing, London, and Shanghai followed suit
Northern Virginia takes the lead. Beijing, London, and Shanghai followed suit
Exceeds previously reported figure by $16 billion
Deals closed in 2024 reached $57 billion
Driven by generative AI
AWS maintains top spot, Google and Microsoft follow
Up 23 percent compared to H1 last year
Plus data center M&A deals forecasted to hit record levels
Top 20 markets account for 60 percent of global capacity
Future projections see hyperscalers take up to 60 percent in 2029
AWS, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle benefit
AI to increase the scale of new data centers
Hundreds of data centers on the way
Cloud has become biggest slice of an ever-growing pie
Just below the record of the year before
Despite the promise of the Edge, big hubs still hold all the cards
Makes more in profits than Google Cloud makes in revenue
Synergy Research says more than 100 hyperscale facilities were built in 2020, with hundreds more in the pipeline
Totaling almost $31 billion
26 have opened this year, and there are another 176 in the pipeline
Every cloud has a silver lining
But expect things to slow down later in the year...
And hyperscale data center spend for the year was up 11 percent
A further 151 are on their way too
Cloud pushes spending to new heights