The Global Index tracks the growth of supply across the three major regions of the Americas, APAC, and EMEA, and discusses representative highlight markets across these regions. The index tracks growth over a five year timeline from 2018 to 2023.
Introduction
Data centre markets around the world continue to grow at breakneck speed. Tapping upon the quantitative and qualitative insights amassed whilst tracking nearly 7,000 individual data centres across globe, the Global Index provides insights into data centre market activity on a global, regional, and market-level.
Section I examines historical data on global data centre supply to look at the pace of developments regionally through nuanced supply categories and discussions surrounding what may lie in the future. This is followed by coverage of a selection of representative developed, developing, and interest markets regionally which are supplemented by analyst insights for more in-depth perspectives on the activity and trends in these markets.
Section II provides a regional focus on APAC, as the region’s growth has shown to outpace the Americas and EMEA in two out of the three supply categories covered in Section I.
Methodology
DC Byte adopts a bottom-up approach in generating market-level analytics built from coverage of each individual facility. A unique range of sources are used and triangulated, ranging from satellite observation imagery to parsing official earnings releases and public planning documents, speaking with stakeholders, and physical ‘shoe leather’ inspections. All data collected and presented in this publication is to the best of DC Byte’s knowledge and experience. The Global Index tracks the growth of supply across the three major regions of the Americas, APAC, and EMEA, and discusses representative highlight markets across these regions. The index tracks growth over a five year timeline from 2018 to 2023.
