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reports on global data center power consumption and AI-driven
infrastructure growth.
Data centers are rapidly becoming mission-critical digital
infrastructure, evolving from back-end IT sites into strategic
platforms for cloud, connectivity, and data-driven services. Growth
is being driven by cloud and hybrid adoption, surging data traffic,
and demand for secure, resilient environments, boosting colocation
and hyperscale builds while AI is supercharging expansion with
high-density graphics processing unit (GPU) workloads. Against this
backdrop, data center power consumption is projected to triple, at a
compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.1% from 2024 to 2030,
according to
GlobalData, a leading intelligence and productivity platform.
GlobalData’s latest report, “Powering Data Centers Market Report: Power Consumption, Capacity,
PUE and Project Pipeline Analysis and Country Ranking Forecast to
2030,” reveals that the US and China remained the largest markets,
accounting for 38% and 24.2%, respectively, of the global data
center power consumption in 2024 due to their concentration of
hyperscale and colocation capacity and strong digital and AI
ecosystems. This balance is expected to shift by 2030, with China
projected to surpass the US, reaching about 30.1% and rising further
to 33.6%.
Rehaan Shiledar,
Power
Analyst at GlobalData, comments:
“The global data center installed capacity is projected to surge
by 2030, delivering nearly a threefold expansion within just six
years. China is expected to lead this growth engine, scaling from
27% in 2024 to 35% by 2030. While the US is projected to remain
the second-largest market, currently at 42%, its share is expected
to decline to 34% by 2030. Even in 2030, China and the US together
account for about 69% of the market, implying that global data
center capacity will remain heavily concentrated in two
geographies.”
Installed data center capacity across the rest of the world is
projected to hold steady at approximately 31% from 2024 through
2030. The Asia-Pacific region (APAC) is expected to outpace other
geographies, supported by accelerating digitalization, cloud
adoption, and sustained infrastructure investment. Markets including
India, Russia, Japan, South Korea, and Australia have sizeable
project pipelines, with developments spanning the full lifecycle
from planning and permitting through construction and commissioning.
“The global data center market is set to be shaped predominantly
by hyperscalers, colocation and managed service providers, and
enterprises, because each segment addresses a distinct and
enduring set of requirements. Hyperscalers will remain the
principal engine of growth as AI training, inference, and
cloud-native workloads require vast increments of capacity
delivered with industrial speed, extreme efficiency, and tight
integration across compute, storage, and networking. Colocation
and service providers will expand in parallel by supplying
‘ready-to-use’ power and space, dense interconnection ecosystems,
and flexible commercial structures.”
The US is positioned to dominate both hyperscale and colocation
deployment. Its development pipeline is estimated at 78.2% of
hyperscalers and 21.5% of colocation data centers. The UK presents a
contrasting profile: the pipeline skews more heavily toward
colocation than self-built hyperscale facilities, with approximately
61.2% of colocation projects versus about 38.8% of hyperscalers. The
hyperscale segment will be anchored by Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web
Services (AWS), and Google Cloud, often called the “Big Three”,
along with Meta, as the leading forces.
Government policies are fundamentally transforming the global data
center market by prioritizing data localization, sustainability, and
digital infrastructure investment. Key initiatives include mandatory
data sovereignty laws and infrastructure incentives. For instance,
the US issued an Executive Order on accelerating federal permitting
of data center, intended to facilitate financial support for
large-scale data centers in July 2025. In February 2022, China
introduced a national strategy that pushes for building more data
centers in western regions, where land, power and renewables are
available in abundance. The Indian government is offering tax
incentives and policy support to attract investment, encouraging
faster expansion of data centers.
“Data centers are rapidly reshaping the power sector. Fueled by
the acceleration of AI and cloud computing, global electricity
demand from data centers has surged. With a single hyperscale
facility capable of drawing as much power as a small city, this
growth is forcing consequential shifts across generation capacity,
transmission and distribution investment, and day-to-day grid
operations.”
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Notes to Editors
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Quotes provided by Rehaan Aleem Shiledar, Power Analyst at
GlobalData Plc (LSE:DATA) -
Information based on GlobalData’s report “Powering Data Centers
Market Report: Power Consumption, Capacity, PUE and Project
Pipeline Analysis and Country Ranking Forecast to 2030,” which
provides an industry insight on how the power sector is
experiencing huge growth in data centers.
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