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The number of large data centres used by hyperscale operators to support their expanding business operations will continue to grow at a rapid pace, according to a new forecast from Synergy. With 314 known future plans for new hyperscale data centres, the number of large data centres operated by hyperscale operators is set to pass the 1,000 mark within the next three years and continue to grow rapidly thereafter.
The US accounts for nearly 40% of the number of hyperscale data centres already in operation, and half of the global capacity. To a large extent, it is also the country with the most new data centres going forward, followed by China, Ireland, India, Spain, Israel, Canada, Italy, Australia and the UK. As the installed base of operational data centres continues to grow by double-digit percentages each year, along with their average size and the expansion of older facilities, the capacity of these data centres will grow at an even faster rate.
The study is based on an analysis of the data centre footprints and plans of 19 major cloud and internet services companies worldwide, including the largest operators in IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, search, social networking, e-commerce and gaming.
The companies with the broadest data centre footprints are currently the leading cloud providers - Amazon, Microsoft, Google and IBM. each with 60 or more data centre locations spread across at least three of the four regions of North America, Asia Pacific, EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and Latin America. Oracle, Alibaba and Tencent also have very extensive data centre operations. The leading companies by data centre capacity are Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Facebook, although the fastest growing are the Chinese hyperscalers, most notably ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent. The companies that will play the biggest role in the future pipeline of new data centres are Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google.
John Dinsdale, principal analyst at Synergy, said: 'The future looks bright for hyperscale operators, with total revenues set to grow at double-digit annual rates, supported by cloud revenues set to grow at 20-30 per cent per annum. This in turn will launch strong growth in capital expenditure, particularly data centre spending. We forecast continued rapid growth across the hyperscale data centre ecosystem going forward. The outlook for companies whose products successfully target this ecosystem will also be very positive."
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