Data center capacity to increase by 20 million square feet this year: Omdia

摘要

Omdia predicts that major cloud and colocation services providers will add 20 million square feet of capacity in 2021. That figure comes about in part due to a major wave of new capacity expansion initiatives launched during the second half of last year, the market research firm indicates in its latest Cloud & Colocation Data Center Building Tracker.The top 35 cloud and colocation service providers added 10 million square feet of data center capacity in the second half of last year, Omdia reports. Colocation service providers accounted for about 51％ of this new capacity, with cloud service providers bring on 48％. As the figure above illustrates, the last six months of 2020 saw a boom in capacity expansion projects. While the current estimation of new capacity projects for the first half of this year trails that of the first half of 2020, estimating how much capacity will be added and when via new or previously inaugurated building projects can be tricky, making comparisons difficult, Omdia points out.