The Global Index tracks growth over a five-year timeline from 2019 to 2024. Supply and demand are analysed at a global level, along with supply growth across the three major regions: Americas, APAC, and EMEA. The report also includes a focused analysis of the Americas, featuring a comparative index highlighting growth across key markets.
Introduction
The Global Index provides data-driven insights into the current data centre market landscape. The quantitative and qualitative insights are amassed from tracking over 7,500 individual data centres across the globe.
Section I examines how global supply and demand have grown over the past five years.
Section II provides insight into regional dynamics via analyses of supply categories in the Americas, Asia Pacific (APAC) and Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).
Section III is a regional focus on the Americas, with the region noted as the global leader on all accounts of supply.
Methodology
DC Byte adopts a bottom-up approach in generating market-level analytics built from coverage of each facility. A unique range of sources are used, ranging from satellite observation imagery to parsing official earnings releases and public planning documents, speaking with stakeholders, and physical on site inspections. All data collected and presented in this publication is to the best of DC Byte’s knowledge and experience, based on data captured in February 2025.
