2025 Global Data Center Market Comparison

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GLOBAL DATA CENTER MARKET COMPARISON

Terrestrial Variables

Key Takeaways

• Data center land transactions continued to grow throughout 2024 as campus-style developments took hold of the industry. The trend toward larger site acquisitions, which better accommodate phased development, has pushed operators farther from urban cores and into the suburbs of many major markets where land availability is higher. • The price of land is one of the few areas of the data center development process where operators can exert some control. However, competition for land is high, and the data center industry often faces competition from other sectors in the land acquisition process. Powered land — sites with existing power commitments from the local utilities — grew in prevalence over the course of the year. • Data centers must be constructed with high fault tolerances, minimizing or mitigating risks from natural disasters. At a minimum, they are expected to have no more than 29 hours of downtime per year. The most desirable data centers, however, have a high degree of redundancy and full fault tolerance, and experience annual downtime of less than 30 minutes.

CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD | DATA CENTER ADVISORY GROUP

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