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Selasa, 18 Februari 2020 08:07:00

Cushman & Wakefield Ranks Global Data Center Markets In New Study

Hong Kong among top five global markets with lowest taxes, and continues to lead the Greater China data center market alongside Shanghai and Beijing

HONG KONG, -17 February 2020 - Data Centers, once a niche investment and inflexible asset for global enterprises, are now a cornerstone of the information economy, and USD 100 billion has poured into the asset class over the past decade, according to Cushman & Wakefield's report -- Data Center Market Comparison.

This significant capital inflow has been matched by an equally major technical shift, as enterprises have chosen to move workloads off premises, first to colocation facilities and more recently to a mixture of colocation and public and private clouds. This shift has caused the largest cloud platform providers -- Amazon, Google and Microsoft -- to become the most influential players in many markets, altering data center sizing by a factor of 10. The 10-megawatt (MW) data center that was impressive 10 years ago now pales in comparison to 30-MW leases now signed with increasing regularity. 
 
Cushman & Wakefield's study evaluated 1,162 data centers across 38 global markets, with each data center scored across 12 weighted criteria. In consideration of each market, the highest weight was given to cloud availability, fiber connectivity and market size; mid-weight considerations were development pipeline, government incentives, market vacancy, political stability and sustainability; and low-weight considerations included environmental risk, land prices, power costs and taxes. 
 
For the top 10 markets -- Northern Virginia, Silicon Valley, Dallas, Chicago, New York/New Jersey, Singapore, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Seattle and London -- global leaders maintain supremacy. Still, emerging markets such as Atlanta, Denver, Dublin, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Portland, Salt Lake City and Vancouver offer compelling alternatives.
 
Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing continue to lead the data center market in Greater China, and now place among the global leaders for market capacity. Beijing placed in the top five globally for market size (joining Northern Virginia, London, Tokyo and Silicon Valley) after decades of brisk economic growth have led to a very large market run by a mix of local operators and telecommunication companies. Hong Kong -- A main site for global business that has no value-added tax -- is among the top five global markets with the lowest taxes, alongside Portland in the U.S. that has no sales tax, creating a compelling incentive by itself. (*).