Remarkable Growth in a Remarkable Time

The last two years have been remarkable in many ways. Industries across the board have been confronted with change and disruption — and the data center industry has been no exception.

In early 2020, many businesses faced a sudden and heightened need for greater cloud technology to connect a dispersed workforce and enable people to do their jobs in a work-from-home environment. The trend continued in 2021 as cloud migration accelerated, the need for data centers continued to grow and major data producing platforms — companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Alibaba, Apple and others — spread their data center footprints throughout the world. Today, the question is no longer whether the largest hyperscale data center users will expand to new regions each year, but how many will expand and how quickly.

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