Data Centers Research Service

ABI Research’s Data Centers Research Service examines the trends shaping next-generation compute infrastructure, guiding providers and implementers across workload demand, capacity expansion, energy consumption, thermal management, investment, edge deployments, and orbital data center opportunities.

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Data Centers Coverage Areas

ABI Research’s data centers coverage provides in-depth insights for technology providers and implementers navigating the rapid evolution of digital infrastructure. The service explores the major trends transforming data center strategies, including increasing workload demand, infrastructure investment, capacity expansion plans, distributed architectures, and energy generation, consumption, and operational efficiency.

Within this context, it examines data center capacity expansion, power availability, and thermal management, alongside the growing role of edge data centers and emerging orbital data center concepts. In addition to assessing market drivers, regional dynamics, and ecosystem shifts, the service delivers vendor analysis and real-world implementation insights to support both supply- and demand-side decision-making. This research equips stakeholders to align with next-generation infrastructure opportunities and long-term data center transformation.

Data Center Infrastructure, Demand & Investment Trends

Data center capacity expansion and regional build-out trends
Workload demand growth across Artificial Intelligence (AI), cloud, enterprise, and digital services
Investment trends in data center development, modernization, and expansion
Capacity expansion plans, data center site selection, scalability, and capacity utilization strategies
Modular data center deployment models
Workload distribution across core, regional, edge, and specialized data center environments
Orbital data centers’ market potential, technical feasibility, and deployment roadmaps

Vendor & Ecosystem Assessments

Competitive assessments of data center operators, cooling vendors, power infrastructure suppliers, and edge specialists
Strategic positioning of colocation providers, hyperscalers, and infrastructure integrators
Partner ecosystems, including utilities, engineering firms, hardware vendors, and network providers
Go-to-Market (GTM) strategies for data center infrastructure, cooling solutions, and distributed compute platforms

Data Centers Research Powers Technology Innovation & Implementation

For Innovators

In the evolving data center landscape, ABI Research helps technology providers develop and prioritize product, investment, partnership, and GTM strategies. The research service enables suppliers to understand shifts in workload demand, capacity expansion, energy consumption, and thermal requirements; identify emerging opportunities across edge and orbital deployments; assess competitive positioning; and align innovation with infrastructure priorities and customer demand.

For Implementers

Our data centers research empowers implementers with actionable intelligence on technologies, vendors, deployment models, and operational best practices. Using insights from the service, implementers can better evaluate capacity expansion plans, energy and cooling strategies, workload placement, and partner ecosystems, ensuring they make informed infrastructure decisions that support performance, resilience, efficiency, and long-term transformation goals.

Our Data Centers Research Helps Solve Real Business Challenges For Key Stakeholders

What challenges can we help you solve?

Identify where workload demand is accelerating capacity needs

Support infrastructure investment planning across core, edge, and specialized environments

Inform strategies for power availability, energy consumption, and thermal management

Benchmark expansion plans, service positioning, and regional deployment priorities

Guide differentiation through performance, scalability, and workload-specific infrastructure

What key questions can we help you answer?

How is workload demand reshaping infrastructure strategy and capacity expansion plans?

Where are the strongest regional opportunities and biggest infrastructure bottlenecks?

What power, energy, and thermal strategies are needed to support AI and high-density compute?

How should providers balance centralized scale with edge and distributed deployment models?

What role could emerging concepts like orbital data centers play in future infrastructure planning?

What challenges can we help you solve?

Benchmark market demand, utilization patterns, and capacity expansion strategies

Assess how customer workload growth is changing facility design and service requirements

Identify opportunities to differentiate through power access, cooling readiness, and regional footprint

Inform capital allocation and investment priorities for high-density and AI-ready environments

Support Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy for enterprise, hyperscale, and emerging neocloud customers

What key questions can we help you answer?

Which customer segments and workloads are driving the next wave of facility demand?

How should operators evolve sites to support higher-density and AI-ready deployments?

What expansion and investment strategies will deliver the greatest competitive advantage?

How do energy access, cooling readiness, and location shape long-term success?

What is the opportunity for modular, edge, and specialized deployment models?

What challenges can we help you solve?

Understand demand for cooling, power, rack, modular, and facility management solutions

Identify where thermal and energy challenges are creating the strongest market opportunities

Align product development with changing density, efficiency, and resiliency requirements

Evaluate customer needs across centralized, edge, and next-generation data center models

Support market positioning and partner strategy across operators, cloud providers, and integrators

What key questions can we help you answer?

Which infrastructure categories will see the strongest demand from capacity expansion and AI growth?

How fast are advanced cooling and power solutions moving into mainstream deployments?

What are the infrastructure implications of rising energy consumption and workload density?

How should vendors align with operator and cloud provider investment priorities?

Where are the best opportunities across core, edge, and emerging data center environments?

What challenges can we help you solve?

Identify where workload demand is accelerating capacity needs

Support infrastructure investment planning across core, edge, and specialized environments

Inform strategies for power availability, energy consumption, and thermal management

Benchmark expansion plans, service positioning, and regional deployment priorities

Guide differentiation through performance, scalability, and workload-specific infrastructure

What key questions can we help you answer?

Which workloads are driving the next wave of compute and acceleration demand?

How are power, cooling, and rack density constraints influencing silicon requirements?

What role will AI, edge, and distributed infrastructure play in future chipset demand?

How should vendors position products for evolving cloud and data center architectures?

Where are the biggest whitespace opportunities across performance, efficiency, and specialized compute?

Meet The Analysts You'll Work With

ABI Research's team of analysts publish groundbreaking research often years before other tech advisory firms, empowering our clients to stay ahead of their markets and their competitors.

Leo Gergs

Research Director

Dimitris Mavrakis

Senior Research Director

Larbi Belkhit

Principal Analyst

Malik Saadi

Chief Research Officer

Leo Gergs

Research Director

Dimitris Mavrakis

Senior Research Director

Larbi Belkhit

Principal Analyst

Malik Saadi

Chief Research Officer

Meet All Our Analysts

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Data Centers Coverage Areas

Data Center Infrastructure, Demand & Investment Trends

Vendor & Ecosystem Assessments

Data Centers Research Powers Technology Innovation & Implementation

For Innovators

For Implementers

Our Data Centers Research Helps Solve Real Business Challenges For Key Stakeholders

What challenges can we help you solve?

What key questions can we help you answer?

What challenges can we help you solve?

What key questions can we help you answer?

What challenges can we help you solve?

What key questions can we help you answer?

What challenges can we help you solve?

What key questions can we help you answer?

Meet The Analysts You'll Work With

ABI Research's team of analysts publish groundbreaking research often years before other tech advisory firms, empowering our clients to stay ahead of their markets and their competitors.

Leo Gergs

Dimitris Mavrakis

Larbi Belkhit

Malik Saadi

Leo Gergs

Dimitris Mavrakis

Larbi Belkhit

Malik Saadi

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Companies Covered

Our expansive Cloud research covers leading companies, hot tech innovators, and emerging players in the industry.

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Winning the Next Wave of Data Center Growth

Where Should You Play in the Orbital Data Center Ecosystem?

Overcoming AI Infrastructure’s Biggest Bottlenecks: Power, Cooling, and Data Center Design

Charts & Data

Hyperscaler AI Active Capacity by Region: 2025 to 2035

Tier One Hyperscaler Optical Line System Activations in North America by Capacity

Data Centers In Space Effective Compute Power (GW): 2026 to 2035

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Study Shows 76% of Discrete and Process Manufacturers Use Cloud Platforms for Real-Time Collaboration and Supply Chain Efficiency

ABI Research Launches Key AI Tool to Speed Time to Insight for Customers

Blogs

What B2B Technology Companies Get Wrong When Building Product Roadmaps

6 Consumer Technology Trends to Watch in 2H 2026

Advancing AI 2026: AMD Begins & Ends the Show with Confidence

Research Highlights

How to Choose an AI-First Neocloud Provider: A Six-Point Checklist for CTOs and CIOs (2026 Guide)

Three Gripes Driving Enterprises from Hyperscalers to Neocloud Providers

Using the Sovereign Cloud to Protect Telco Networks

Insights

Advancing AI 2026: AMD and Schneider Electric's Helios Reference Design Signals a New Bar for AI Rack Deployment

Software-Defined Automation-as-a-Service Drives New Opportunities for the Cloud Ecosystem

Data Center Interconnect (DCI) Is Now a Four-Layer Stack with Open Standards Advancing, but NVIDIA Is Setting the Pace

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We cover the technologies, trends, and markets from every angle, and we deliver our qualitative and quantitative intelligence in multiple formats.

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INSIGHTS

RANKINGS

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