Actionable Benefits
- Benchmark colocation data center footprints and expansion trends from 2025 to 2035 across five regions using long-range forecasts of facility counts, capacity utilization, and workload mix.
- Prioritize market entry, expansion, and capacity investment strategies with clear visibility into active, available, and under-the-roof Information Technology (IT) capacity by region.
- Identify where Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled colocation infrastructure is scaling fastest by comparing AI versus legacy workload growth across wholesale and retail colocation environments.
- Track operator competitive positioning with rankings based on active IT capacity across global and regional markets.
Research Highlights
- A complete global colocation data center forecast (2025 to 2035) covering facility counts, IT capacity, and workload deployment across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East & Africa, and Latin America.
- Detailed segmentation by power class (<10 MW and >10 MW), capacity status (active, available, under-the-roof), and workload type (AI and legacy).
- Regional deep dives with standardized tables and charts illustrating capacity utilization trends, AI adoption, and colocation footprint evolution.
- Global and regional rankings of leading colocation data center operators by active IT capacity.
Critical Questions Answered
- How many colocation data centers will be in operation globally through 2035, and which regions are expanding, stabilizing, or contracting fastest?
- How quickly is AI workload capacity growing within colocation environments relative to traditional enterprise and cloud-driven workloads across regions?
- Where is large-scale (>10 Megawatt (MW)) colocation development increasing, and where does unused or build-ahead capacity provide near-term expansion headroom?
- Which colocation operators lead in IT capacity today, and how does this positioning evolve over time by region?
Who Should Read This?
- Colocation operators, portfolio strategy leaders, and data center executives planning expansion, modernization, or AI-ready capacity investments.
- Cloud providers, enterprises, managed service providers, and network operators evaluating colocation capacity and regional deployment options.
- Infrastructure and technology vendors aligning servers, accelerators, networking, power, and cooling strategies with colocation deployment trends.
- Investors, regulators, and policymakers assessing long-term third-party digital infrastructure investment, market concentration, and regional capacity maturity.
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