2025 Global Data Center Market Comparison

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GLOBAL DATA CENTER MARKET COMPARISON

Market Fundamentals

Key Takeaways

• The amount of live capacity in a market reflects past demand and offers insight into market maturity. Typically, large markets experience steadier demand due to their established talent pools for building and operating data centers, robust infrastructure and scalability. Globally, 13 markets boast operational capacities exceeding 1GW. • A market’s development pipeline highlights investor interest, upcoming capacity and — when paired with prelease rates — unmet demand and the landscape of availability for large occupiers. There are nine markets where 100% of capacity currently under construction was already committed, and two where planned markets showed the same. • Vacancy rates provide a snapshot of current availability in a market, but they don’t paint the full picture. A deeper analysis of property -level availabilities within a market reveals deeper insight into whether vacancy rates are symptomatic of demand or untenantable space. Currently, only eight individual data centers offer 20MW or more of available capacity in a single data center.

CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD | DATA CENTER ADVISORY GROUP

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